Word: penned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proud Moslems, warriors and horsemen rather than merchants and intellectuals, turned inward and all but "abandoned the field to the Hindus. As Historian Arnold Toynbee described it, "A British arbiter had decreed that the pen should be substituted for the sword as the instrument with which the competition was conducted." As independence approached, the Moslems understandably grew uneasy about the pros- pects of life under a vengeful Hindu majority. Moslem Leader Mohammed Ali Jinnah demanded the creation of a separate Islamic nation, Pakistan. Among the five provinces that opted to join the new nation was East Bengal, whose Moslem majority...
...unheard one, muted by misrepresentation and myth, in a country that claims to have a special ear for the untutored eloquent. As Dee Brown puts it in the introduction, "Only occasionally was the voice of the Indian heard, and then more often than not it was recorded by the pen of the white man. The Indian was the dark menace of the myths, and even if he had known how to write in English, where would he have found a printer or publisher...
...confinement--my crime? The same, I can take a joke so I'll survive this as I have in the past. One thing thought, I've lost all contact with my friends--I don't receive visits or personal mail: I'd like very much to acquire a female pen pal--could you put a small ad in your paper regarding this? I'd certainly appreciate it. It's been a few years since I have enjoyed a letter or visit, all of my correspondence consists of business letters. My family visits once or twice a year, they write just...
...Paris, have been renamed in his honor. More than 1,000,000 copies of books about De Gaulle, including Andre Malraux's Fallen Oaks, have been sold. A spectacular called La France de Charles de Gaulle is now being filmed, and an organization has collected his uniforms, watch, pen, cane, képis, infantry saber, manuscripts, speeches and photographs for exhibit. A National Memorial Committee is building a $ 1,000,000, 134-foot-high marble cross of Lorraine at Colombey that will be visible for 20 miles...
...tunnel of love, and crazy images reflected in the distorting fun-house mirrors of the mind. The master and slave of this berserk carnival is a psychiatrist named Luke Rhinehart, after the pseudonymous author, whose real name is George Cockcroft. Cockcroft took the hero's name as his pen name "because the book is in part autobiographical and I wanted to force the reader to take the book more seriously than he would a novel." Luke is a square who learns to live by the cube. One night, after a small, drunken party, he resolves that if a die that...