Word: right
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...however, all that has changed. Liberated chicks began slipping the word into conversations during this past decade but we didn't really mind, because it was still private and full of meaning. When good novels could no longer sell without it well, that was all right, too; it was passed strictly between the author (ess) and the reader...
Although a person identified on a request for complaint need not be notified of the hearing, he may demand the right to be heard if he learns the hearing is being held...
...broad and tall, perhaps six feet, but he appears even taller, without being overwhelming. He has an impressive head of grey-black-white hair, combed straight back. And, for all his size, he has that cultured look of American aristocracy. If you catch his face from just the right angle, a side view from behind the ear, there is a trace of John Lindsay. You can see how Styron supported McCarthy but not Robbert Kennedy...
...harder to see how this the man who wrote Lie Down in Darkness, The Long March, Set This House On Fire, and The Confessions of Nat Turner, how this man is, at 44, an heir to William Faulkner and all that Faulkner was heir to. The Southernness is right: "A homogenization has taken place. I'm not sure Faulkner's 'South' still exists, it exists only as a memory. But unless I still smelled the country I know so well, I wouldn't have chosen to write..." What doesn't show is the artist's sensitivity...
Styron does not discuss the work as literature: "I don't think it's right to ask an author to defend his work on literary grounds, and I didn't come here to do that...