Word: reading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...writing for public consumption. "I write a good deal for myself. I keep a journal, which I inspect and burn every two years. Were it ever to be published, that would be a black day! What corner of the world would have me? But when I write to be read, then writing becomes work. There are all sorts of pressures, artificial standards. I imagine it must be much like the actor on the stage--the feeling of limitations, almost embarrassment...
Your review was well submitted. The only trouble with Huxley's preaching is: those he preaches of do not read his books, but those who do read them either do not agree with him or will not act if they do agree...
...marble statuettes, alabaster floor lamps, overstuffed furniture in shades of purple and rose. The López Mateos' only child, Evita, 16, studied at Torrington Park, an English school for middle-class girls, in Arundel, West Sussex, learned flawless English (her father, fluent in Spanish and French, can read English but does not speak...
...read at wakes and weddins...
...however. The virulence of The Yershov Brothers has been noted with disapproval in many quarters. The New Statesman's Moscow correspondent reports that "opinion is being widely expressed that the author has been too sweeping in his attacks on the Moscow literary intelligensia." Most significantly, the Writers Union, which read Pasternak out of its ranks a short time ago, criticized Kochetov sharply for unfavorable distortions of the intellectual's role...