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...later years, though still a Communist, Dery turned the power of his pen against bloodthirsty Stalinism, became a close adviser of the moderate Imre Nagy. As a leader of the potent Writers' Union, he was a powerful voice behind the revolution that brought Khrushchev's tanks rumbling into Hungary last year...
...dead President. The winning entry was 14 lines of flowery verse ("Renowned paladin and cavalier/Glory of America!"). Managua's citizens, by and large, read it glumly, but here and there a face lit up with malicious appreciation. Novedades' editors ran the poem (which was signed with a pen name) for several days-until they, too, noticed that the first letters of the 14 lines spelled out the name of Tacho's assassin: Rigoberto Lopez...
...convents they had no right to enter in the first place. As an ex-nun, I am thoroughly aware that anyone can make a mistake about his or her vocation in life. But why, in Heaven's name, do so many feel impelled to take up a poisoned pen and spit out their venom for the curious and unbelieving to scoff at and ridicule? I am sure that the God who gave Miss Baldwin the talent to write must be wide-eyed with pleasure at the results. He might also be tempted to suddenly appear in human form...
Should anyone misplace a weekend, which--in view of the policy of early parietal hours on football weekends--we doubt, Yale alumnus and surreptitions political pen-pal Foster Furcolo has proclaimed November 11 Veterans Day, asserting that "AllLost Weekends Shall Be Found." And kill the fatted Tiger...
...dozen stories in this new collection may be the literary testament of one of the most skilled but least prolific writers of the 20th century. Isak Dinesen is the pen name of Danish-born Baroness Karen Blixen, who has produced only four other books (Seven Gothic Tales, Out of Africa, Winter's Tales, The Angelic Avengers) in her 72 years. She works, for the most part, in the narrow and demanding field of the Gothic story-a romantic form requiring a controlled mixture of the grotesque and the sublime, where plot tragically turns on the concept of honor...