Word: penning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Slaughterhouse-Five, Bernard Malamud's The Fixer, J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, Ralph Ellison's Invisible. Man, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, P.L Travers' Mary Poppins and The American Heritage Dictionary. Last week a collection of literary luminaries from PEN, the writers' association, dramatized their opposition to censorship by staging a public reading from the banned books at Manhattan's Public Theater. Among those reciting some famous-and forbidden-lines were John Irving, 40, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., 64, Donald Barthelme, 51, Erica Jong, 40, E.L. Doctorow, 51, Calvin...
...connection with your review of Pinball, I would like to inform you that I have not "supported and later repudiated the parole of Convicted Murderer Jack Henry Abbott" [March 22]. As president of American PEN (1973-75), I corresponded with Mr. Abbott, who was part of PEN'S Prisoners Writing Program...
Last year Jane Martin (a pen name shielding a woman who refuses to reveal her identity) made her unforgettable debut as a monologuist with Twirlers, in which the heroine likens champion baton wielding to a transcendent experience ("Twirling is the throwing of yourself up to God"). Lisa Goodman repeats her role this year, and ten more Martin monologues have been added. The most powerful, in content and performance, is Handler. The heroine (Susan Cash) belongs to the Holiness Church and handles rattlers: "If you got the spirit, snake don't bite...
...national elections are held on one day only and require voters both to register in advance and to make an effort to reach the polls. By contrast, the referendum on the constitution took place in House dining halls over three days, and it involved little more than extracting a pen from one's pocket. Moreover, in national elections the campaign is long, and issues are discussed. While the self-styled framers of the constitution spent an inordinate amount of time on details, they spend very time taking neir case to the public, focusing instead on flyers is which feature never...
...worth of liquor somersault from his shelves. Gonzalez was a new man to the liquor business, and an old timer cracked, "He should have put his best whisky on the back of the shelf." Gonzalez still has not made up his losses, but he has learned to pen in his bottles with wire...