Word: writer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lippmann was hired on Joseph Pulitzer's New York World as an editorial writer, and subsequently as editor. When the World died in 1931, Lippmann, by then author of ten books and one of the most authoritative voices of liberalism in the U.S., was invited aboard the then staunchly conservative Herald Tribune as a bylined columnist. The invitation intrigued him. "It was absolutely a new idea," he said. "It was the first time a paper had ever asked someone with opposite views to write...
...available in Widener, and are listed in the card catalogue. In all likelihood it is only instructional manuals and descriptions of method that are in the "Cage," and these are clearly illegal in Massachusetts. The faulty interpretation of the law, which Professor Sax so rightly protests, is the CRIMSON writer's, and not Widener's. Stephen D. Howard...
With Jason Robards Jr. impressive as a collapsing standard bearer for his era and vocation, and with George Grizzard excellent as the younger writer, the main narrative has many moments, such as Halliday's proud roll call of Jazz Age names, that are vibrantly nostalgic, as it has others, such as Halliday's white-knuckled attempt to summarize a scenario that has never been written, that are tensely moving. Elsewhere, at times, the main story is wordy and under-dramatized. Despite Rosemary Harris' period appeal as the wife, the flashbacks seem inadequate, do more to catch...
...proper little horror of a boardinghouse in a glum old watering place on the Channel coast of England. The proprietor (Wendy Hiller) is a sensible, good-tempered spinster, but she has her hands full. She has developed a personal complication with the star boarder (Burt Lancaster), a writer fellow from America who is bound he will make an honest woman of her-until one day his ex-wife (Rita Hayworth) comes slinking in the front door...
Disengagement, the ÉIan to Good. For literature, Pasternak's appearance on the world scene may mark the end of an era. For three decades far too many writers have tilted at every political windmill and ambulance-chased every passing cause. This was what Sartre called "engagement." Pasternak calls for disengagement. By that he does not mean detachment from the world, but attachment to human values. It is not the function of the writer, says Pasternak, to serve principalities and powers. Communism or capitalism. The task of men of letters, as he sees it, is to heed "the living...