Word: writed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doubt, for the great polemic.... I would like to suppose I do not take myself so seriously." He laments the set-up in economics wherein "an economist who uses math and can't add is excluded from the field, while one who uses oral expression and can't write may be considered a competent scholar...
Thomas Wolfe came to Harvard in 1920 determined to write great plays. When he left three years later, he was not only determined but confident: "I know now: I am inevitable. I sincerely believe that the only thing that can stop me now is insanity, disease, or death...
Much of this dislike stemmed from a sense of inferiority and his agonizing self-consciousness. As a result he buried himself deeply in his work and in his reading. Often in the letters of the period he would write of a profound loneliness: "Even the solitude of a desert is companionship when compared to the loneliness of a city. The modern hermit carries all within him--his retreat is the populous wilderness of this world...
Novelist-Playwright Longstreet, 51 (The Pedlocks, High Button Shoes), was a youthful art student in Paris, but this hardly qualifies him to write about the titan of the century. The morning meditations and night thoughts attributed to Picasso (called Julio Navarro in the book) are the cliches of art; his views on life and love are similarly copybook. And the speeches put in Picasso's mouth ("Balbac, I've got it! A whole new approach to painting!") often make him sound like a U.S. adman in the throes of a new toothpaste campaign...
...Sunset Strip (ABC, 9:30-11 p.m.). Girl on the Run, a new detective series, has a main character no more novel than an ex-OSS officer. But with Marion (See Here Private . . .) Hargrove to write the script, the show has its moments...