Word: writed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aging freshman David Breasted writes a poem which might have been superb, but wasn't. The absence of form accentuates the exhaustion which characterizes the poem as well as its subject matter. Unfortunately, the weary seldom write brilliantly...
...Workshop is commemorating the centennial of the publication of Flowers of Evil by 19th century French Poet Pierre-Charles Baudelaire. High point of the centennial: the publication of Homage to Baudelaire, a book of poems by workshop poets. "The way to praise a poet," Engle explains simply, "is to write a poem...
...suburbs?" he demanded. "If you do, you should get a load on every night. Isn't that a hell of a goal?" Television and the movies have their uses. Faulkner conceded, since they are "a simple way to get a paycheck and have nothing to do with writing." For a young writer, Faulkner kept saying, the only thing that matters is a craving to write: "The writer's got to be demon-ridden, to have the demon drive, to express the breadth, beauty, injustice and compassion of life...
...That those involved in the standard major be given more scope for creative work by the institution of a research course. In the fall term of his senior year each student in the standard major would be required to take such a course, in which he would write a paper of reasonable length related to his major field of study...
...only notable wit. Even so, his humor travels no better than the average joke in Punch, and U.S. editions of Lucky Jim and a second novel. That Uncertain Feeling, have barely topped the 5,000 mark in sales. His fellow writers would probably fare even worse, for they write with a sloppy, cliche-ridden arrogance that has been absent from serious U.S. fiction since the heyday of James T. Farrell and the cult of social protest...