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...same feminine peevish tone Morris proposes that Zachariah substitute a pen-pal correspondence with Ethel for his former carousing. Zachariah (James Spruill, a Boston University Fellow and director of the New African Company), only leers good-naturedly at the suggestion, Ethel: sixteen, white, and well-developed. Though wiser than Morris in knowing that dialogue does not replace sensual aspirations, in furrow-browed innocence Zachariah sees no reason why he should fear making it directly with his white pen...

Author: By Ruth N. Glushein, | Title: The Blood Knot | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

Many admirers of Kolář's poetry are still furious with him for having abandoned the pen for the pastepot. But Czechoslovak Art Historian Jiři Padrta suggests that Kolaf's word-cluttered collages have contributed more to a "latent freedom of writing" than his poems ever did. Nothing proved the point so well as the Russian invasion of Aug. 21. All the walls of Prague and all Czechoslovak towns blossomed with writing-defiant slogans, protests and simple anti-Russian graffiti. Then, says Padrta, "the main squares were like one giant Kolář collage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Collage: From Pen to Pastepot | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

...cradle of the phone she looked at the card, then looked at me, then said, more with her eyes than with her mouth, "Oh, so you're Mr. Wilson." By the time she said this I hand handed my bag to the bellhop and was taking out my pen t sign the room slip. Presented with a situation that must have seemed to her a fait accompli, she gave...

Author: By James Q. Wilson, | Title: FOCUS in Perspective: Between Shadow and Act | 2/27/1969 | See Source »

...Cover: Pen and ink with watercolor by Ronald Searle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Feb. 21, 1969 | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

...outset of their mass trial, a seven-man court-martial board was told by the presiding law officer that it was a "nonviolent mutiny." Maximum pen alty: life in prison. To simplify defense procedures, the Army will judge the 25 (two escaped the stockade Christmas Eve) in small groups or individually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials: Mutiny in the Presidio | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

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