Word: writer
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...writer, though, Shana is a surpassing pro. After graduating from Vassar, she worked on the Sunday magazine of the old PM, later freelanced and wrote radio scripts (among them: Mr. District Attorney). Then, in 1951, she took a job as a LIFE reporter and in 1964 began "The Feminine Eye" column. Sometimes gentle, sometimes sharp, and always quick, Shana draws meaning-for men as well as women-out of seemingly ordinary personal feelings. She rebelled against presidential polls, for instance, because "I fiercely resent being told what I am going to do. It makes me suspect I may be being...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVESKY--An acid tripper? Well, not exactly. But no other writer so well conveys the viccissitudes of the spiritual seeker. And perhaps Dostoyevsky, who knew well the spiritual insight that grows from extreme states of consciousness or from sickness itself, would not have criticized a spiritual insight that came from a chemical. Here is his description, from the idiot of the state of consciousness that proceeds an epileptic...
...West, drank too much, and kept remarrying. Instead of getting his work done, he was forever playing at great white hunter or bravebull aficionado or none-too-accurate war correspondent. When Ernest the Bad did write, the crisp sentences came out flabby, self-parodying. Finally, he turned himself from writer into public figure: "Papa," the self-indulgent joker whom his embarrassed admirers couldn't drag offstage and back to his Ernest-the-Good writing desk...
...life of a great writer-or any writer-should not be confused with the value of his works. It was Hemingway's opinion and hope that a writer will be judged finally by the sum total and average of what he has written-and on nothing else. Resolutely concerned with turning out a solid and meticulous biography, Baker sticks to the life, refusing to pass judgment on the works -as, in fact, he ultimately abstains from personal judgment...
...doubt correct when he argues that it is too soon to offer any speculation about lurking critical questions. (For example: Will Hemingway endure mainly as a short-story writer or as a novelist?) Yet the absence of strong opinion and strong feeling, one way or another, finally seems an aggravating weakness of the book...