Word: penned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nothing to chance last week as he schooled himself in the problems of diplomacy, defense and detente that will dominate the NATO conference. Between appointments and before dropping off to sleep at night, he pored over thick, looseleaf briefing books, scribbling questions in the margins with a felt-tipped pen, asking for more information from the National Security Council staff...
Messman William F. Bellinger, 52, of Houston: "Every spare moment I scribbled in my diary. For some reason these Cambodian guys never confiscated my pad. But one of them lifted the pen out of my pocket and asked for it. Very polite like. They never took things off you without asking...
Clarke attacks again and again with his vile pen, but the subjects of his wit seem trivial: physical punishment in the (mostly Catholic) schools of Ireland, the poor treatment of orphans, the collusion between Irish missionaries and Irish businessmen in poor countries. But what finally comes through in reading several of these poems is a deep commitment to the people of his country and a hatred of the hypocrisies of religion as it is still practiced in Ireland today. His later poetry suffers from its topicality, and it will probably not endure the tests of time and place, but somehow...
...only in headlines and television broadcasts and not in its victims' bodies. Such an attitude denies the reality not only of the Vietnam war, but of all human activities--for if 20 years of carnage and destruction can be consigned to oblivion with one stroke of a commentator's pen, then no history deserves to be remembered and no suffering can expect commemoration...
...Rick's meticulous approach was a welcome change of pace from non establishment criticism of Dylan's works which has been uniformly trite and unhelpful Jon Landau of Rolling Stone refers to the "multileveledness" of Mr. Lambontine Man," which sounds fairly impressive but doesn't mean much Similarly Pen Hamill on his liner notes to Hlood on the bracks which Dylan wisely decided to funk on the next shipment of the album-makes mysterious allusions to the Oran of Camus and using a favorite critical catch all phrase phrase, praises the "spaces" in Dylan's songs which "allow...