Word: pens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Road," the book, was the "Grapes of Wrath" of the Hoover era. Its coarse characters, crude action, and real-to-life plot made it a sociology text as well as a novel. It was a chunky, earthy portrayal of actual conditions on Georgia tenant farms by a writer whose pen had the realistic flair of Rembrandt's paintbrush. Adapted for the stage in 1933 "Tobacco Road" broke all records for longevity and attendance. Its dialogue was delivered not only with Georgia drawl but also with Georgia poor-white, obscene explicitness. The pathetic humor of the play prodded the social conscience...
...likes of you, TIME. But you best retire that guy. Award him tops for dramatic writing, for creating literary perfection out of the hideous anomaly that is mechanized warfare; give him double pay for the rest of his days. And no more word pictures from his nimble pen, hear...
...marked some of the artist's earlier work. The vitality is there, but in subdued form. Dahl's Botticellian touch with the chiaroscuro and his treatment of perspective seem to have suffered during his incapacity. His sure touch at drawing out his subjects' characters with deft touches of his pen stayed with him, it is true, but his sense of color seemed to leave him entirely...
...morning he presented the Waldorf counter-girl with an apple, for which bribe he had his soft-boiled eggs brought to his table by a bus-boy. After breakfast he sat there, donned pince-nez, and scoured the Herald, pausing now and then to extract a paragraph with his pen-knife. About 9:15 he went for a walk, an eternal walk, up and down, around, through the Yard, constantly smoking but never inhaling, smiling, chatting, examining the same buildings and paths, finding something old to chuckle over. He spoke precisely, in balanced periods, and his stories all had rhythm...
...efficiently formulaic as most of Adolf Hitler's. With 600,000 Nazi troops across the northern border in Rumania, Bulgaria was hardly in position to say NO. But there were the usual diplomatic mummeries until Premier Filoff flew to Vienna, entered the florid Belvedere Palace, and took the pen offered him by German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop under the eyes of Adolf Hitler himself. Then the Bulgarian Government's explanation-"the pressure of events"-seemed positively eloquent...