Word: writer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...added that the FBI data--supposedly confidential--had originally been given by a member of Congress to a Reader's Digest staff writer "who evidently sold it to the Post and papers in other cities...
...DIARY OF A WRITER (1,097 pp.)-Feodor Dostoevsky-Scribner...
...soon regretted the decision. He hated the work: getting out the sheet each week, rewriting the prince's pompous, half-literate articles, churning out copy for his own column, "The Diary of a Writer." And though The Citizen whooped it up for Czar and Russia, Dostoevsky found himself in several scrapes with the censors; once he was sent to jail for 48 hours for having violated a bureaucratic regulation...
Image of a Writer. Next week The Diary of a Writer appears in English for the first time. It is one of those books that is alternately fascinating and dreary, tinglingly exciting and unendurably boring. Journalist Dostoevsky observed none of the rules; he wrote about whatever he pleased at whatever length he pleased, and he wrote sloppily and badly, seldom troubling to whip his pieces into coherent shape. Diary is a vast jumble of rants, stories, articles, sketches, criticisms, polemics-some completely dated, some as fresh and troubling as The Brothers Karamazov...
...party's point. Columnist Rodney meekly wrote : "I was off, and am trying to correct myself ... In any case involving a white and a Negro, it is the Negro who is prejudged and presumed guilty . . . This is what I seem to have forgotten." Wrote Columnist Mardo : "This writer would like to take note of the serious criticism he has received for the errors of omission [which] resulted in a poor, politically incorrect column . . . There should have been no discussion of [Commissioner] Chandler and Durocher without linking it to the main question of white chauvinism inherent in this whole case...