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...like a confession. In Disturbing the Universe, science is often secondary to Dyson's enunciation of his personal failures and vulnerabilities. This is the most unexpected and endearing aspect of this unorthodox book. But while Dyson is eloquent, he is not a professional writer when he picks up a pen and bravely sets down what means most to him, he is not always convincing...
...created the popular Little Tim storybook series; in London. Born in Haiphong, in what was then French Indochina, but reared in England, Ardizzone, whose style has been likened to Hogarth's and Rowlandson's, served as an official combat artist during World War II, before returning with pen and brush to less serious fare. He illustrated nearly 100 children's books; Magic Carpet, one of his best-known paintings, was reproduced by UNICEF for its collection of international Christmas cards...
Here was an unmistakably new and distinctive voice, conversant with Freud and Marx, sharply rhythmic and harshly prophetic: "Seekers after happiness, all who follow/ The convolutions of your simple wish,/ It is later than you think ..." Since he had no money of his own, Auden simply let his pen for hire, and it was one of the fastest in the West. His poetry continued to flow, but so did documentary scripts, radio plays, librettos, travel books, speeches, essays. Cyril Connolly marveled: "It is as if he worked under the influence of some mysterious drug, which gives him a private vision...
...write for a public," says Pritchett. "I write to clear my own mind, to find out what I think and feel." He pursues this Socratic labor seven days a week, nearly 52 weeks a year, writing with a fountain pen on sheets of strong, white paper that he holds on a pastry board. It has been his lap desk for 40 years...
...Vietnamese-sponsored government of Cambodia blandly dismissed President Carter's pledge to provide $69 million in relief assistance to avert a ''tragedy of genocidal proportion'' taking place in what was once one of Southeast Asia's more peaceful and prosperous nations. Even as Pen Sovan spoke, his claim was being contradicted by eyewitnesses who were driven to tears by the sight of famished Cambodian refugees trudging wearily across the border to the precarious safety of refugee camps in Thailand. Battered by war, famine and disease, the refugees' faces reflected the plight...