Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poetry in this issue is hard to discuss. It is hard not only because poetry is always hard to discuss but because good poetry is hard to write. There is so little good poetry and so much bad poetry that every reviewer is inclined to view the extermination of poets as a public service. And yet an Advocate reader cannot help remembering that this poetry is well above the local average...
...election date itself kicked up the hottest squabble; it was too soon for some, too late for others. Aramburu announced that an Assembly will be chosen July 28 to write a new constitution. Then next Feb. 23, voters will go to the polls and select a new President...
Even though Chicago's more discriminating teachers may indulge in this nonsense only sparingly, it will still take time enough away from subjects like history, chemistry and physics. Besides, says Joel Hildebrand, "why write it all down? Why make teachers read this stuff? The flabby condition of education demonstrated in this book is going to put us behind the Russians in more areas than the military...
...knocked her flat; while laying siege to the Herald Tribune (because another woman, far-traveling Marguerite Higgins, had done so well there), she judged jingle contests, publicized a few hotels, and on some days was down to very slim rations. But the Herald Trib finally surrendered, hired her to write women's features. In 1955 Sports Editor Bob Cooke saw a piece she had written on skiing, brought her over to Sports, gave her only one bit of instruction: "I told her to ask any question she wanted and not to worry about sounding ignorant...
Toasts & Hubris. The book is crowded with friends who somehow all sound alike. Novelist John (The Wall) Hersey sets the note when he says ("tightly") by way of farewell: "You make me want to write!" and adds in a letter: "My dear, calm friend! . . . You are noble . . . You manage to make a kind of dance of it." Not all will want to follow the last steps of the dreadful dance, when Lael Tucker's second husband (whom she divorced to marry Wertenbaker) visits the dying man and sitting before the fire says: "You are the best . . . Tell me what...