Word: pens
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
THERE IS quickness of pen and extraordinary imagination in Handcarved Coffins as Capote recounts the bizarre details of the Quinn-Pepper battle. One fist-faced women watches TV with the sound off, another goes to work for the circus in Sarasota, a third injures her knee in a fall from her father's horse. Capote's intuition slices through the lies, doubts and fears of these people but he refuses to condescend. He is perplexed by the townspeople who noisily support Quinn against all suspicion. And he is wounded by the quiet pain of Pepper's lover Addie, who nobly...
Sometimes, as in the case of Janet Flanner, this urge to self-censorship makes for a rather opaque style of revelation. Writing for a half-century under the pen-name of "Genet" for The New Yorker, Flanner generally focused her discriminating eye upon the social and artistic elite of Europe. Her work often recalls the advocacy for taste and manners so prominent in the pioneering efforts of Addison and Steele; at other times, Flanner inserts herself neatly into the turmoil of the age, observing a bankrupt Berlin of 1931 or reflecting upon the fate of Warsaw some time after...
...mostly psychological. Unlike General Motors' high-paying suggestion program, which offers employees up to $10,000 for useful innovations, a Japanese firm's award of $600 for a patentable idea is considered generous. At Nissan, maker of Datsun, an original proposal is usually rewarded with a ballpoint pen or a company button. From the president on down, nobody is too proud to wear the nondescript gray company smock or a lapel pin with the corporate emblem...
France, in its lust for oil, appears to have thrown to the wind all constraints of morality, good sense or even self-interest." Those piercing words emanated from the pen of a British Member of Parliament whose name still rings with authority: Winston Churchill, the grandson of the wartime Prime Minister. Charged Tory M.P. Churchill, 39, who on matters of Middle East politics is a fervent supporter of Israel: "The French government has taken upon itself, with a recklessness not shared by any other nuclear power, including the Soviet Union or the People's Republic of China, responsibility...
...fear of writing set her phone ringing. Workshop led to workshop. Wounds healed. One woman went directly from a Kuriloff session to a motel, rented a room for the weekend and wrote. And wrote. And wrote. Another set down, miraculously, as it must have seemed to her, "My pen is shaking in my hand. I am about to write...