Word: penned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...garden, one segment of which forms a floral fleur-de-lis, the symbol of French royalty. After 40 minutes, the general is back at his desk in his book-lined study. As he edits manuscripts, he extends his right index finger along the contoured body of the fountain pen to its tip. To his right is an old-fashioned inkwell from which he refills the pen, and to his left photographs of his grandchildren. There is always a vase of fresh flowers on the desk...
...seize upon one's own condition; Marxist artists, especially those working in Eastern Europe, have realized how rooted their collective sensibility remains in a long history of revolution. Even the means of composition have been transfigured by these dramas; when Hungarian poets in prison, denied their simple tools of pen and paper, continue to write by repeating the lines to themselves in an unceasing litany, it becomes difficult to talk about poems as if they were anything other than prayers. Richard Gilman, discussing the "Poor Theatre" of Grotowski, argued in New American Review No. 9 that...
...small room of drawings, you see how he plans the canvases, outlining them with a ruler often on graph paper. Using a felt pen he has made some interesting color models, but they lack the power which enormous size blows into them. As you pass a corner along the exhibition, a circle ten feet in diameter faces you from the end of a brief hall. Light colored bands drive in and among each other, breaking and reconnecting around the circle. This pinwheel vision dominates the show...
This month a superior court judge in Fayetteville, N.C., put his pen to an order declaring that three prisoners who had escaped from the Cumberland county jail were outlaws. Outlaws? In 1970? As it happens, North Carolina is one of a handful of states where outlawry remains in existence. Once a man is made an outlaw by court order in North Carolina, he is literally outside the protection of the law. Any citizen may try to capture him and, if the outlaw resists, the citizen may legally kill him on the spot...
...life, he served nearly ten years before the Supreme Court upset his conviction in 1966 on the ground that "inherently prejudicial publicity" had prevented him from receiving a fair trial. Retried and acquitted (the murder weapon was never found), Sheppard married a German divorcee who had become his pen pal while he was in prison, and reopened his practice. Divorced in 1969 and harassed with malpractice suits, Sheppard became a professional wrestler, and five months before he died married the 20-year-old daughter of his manager...