Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remark so enraged Hedda, she says, that she saw to it that the story-minus the offensive quote-was plastered across the front page of the Los Angeles Times. "I had no regret," she adds. "If she'd been my own daughter, I'd have done it. Without a sense of integrity you can't sleep nights...
...capacity crowd filed out of The Zoo Story last night, I heard one scholarly-looking individual remark to his date, "Wasn't that a great play...
...contributor to these columns and editor of The Harvard Review, assesses Letting Go by Philip Roth. Only Schwartz, who has a much more difficult task than the others in reviewing fiction, is not completely convincing. He discusses at length, and very knowledgeably, "Roth's failure." Then Schwartz proceeds to remark, almost off-handedly, that "Still, I consider Roth's book perhaps the best American novel since the war." That's pretty strong statement to make on the basis of the discussion presented...
...Immortals of the sedate Académie Française recently received an intriguing parcel from an unknown donor. In the mail came the most literary pornographic novel since the Marquis de Sade. Called L'Histoire d'O, it once moved Catholic Paul Claudel to remark, "All priests should read it so they may have an exact sense of sin." The parcel was intended to prejudice academicians against electing the man who had written the book's preface. Jean Paulhan, 78, and who is widely suspected of having written the novel himself under a pseudonym. A grand...
...Mullerin and hardly suited to a woman's voice and manner. Der Tod und das Madchen, on the other hand, conveyed such a deep sense of both the terror and the serenity of death, that it was with a bit of a shock that I recalled de los Angeles' remark to her accompanist Gerald Moore in his book Am I Too Loud? When he arrived backstage, weeping copiously after one of her opera performances, she greeted him with: "Don't worry, my dee-ah boy, I was only pretending to die, you know...