Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...June 18 "cutlet" for cheating on examinations (formulae on fingernails and a circular note under his wristwatch crystal): for knowing so precisely what was to be asked on the examination without benefit of an espionage system, Mr. Harvey deserved at least a passing grade. Anything he could write on so small a space might just as well have been memorized. Most of the myths students cherish about cheating are about as reliable. Ever hear about the boy with the hearing aid tuned in to a portable tape recorder...
This remarkable episode in the history of Ike's party problems is part of a remarkable book* by the New York Herald Tribune's veteran White House Correspondent Robert Donovan, which became public this week. Tapped by the Administration to write its first history, Newsman Donovan had free access (see PRESS) to superprivate (but nonclassified) papers. Donovan's product, although it deals principally with the unsensational, everyday affairs of state, type-sets both the headlines and the footnotes of the Eisenhower Administration, and is certain to start political horns honking across...
...snapped at some old-bone subjects dangled before him in Manhattan by a World-Telegram and Sunman. Of his erstwhile great and good friend, French Authoress Simone de Beauvoir, who unwarily dedicated her latest existentialist idyl, The Mandarins, to Algren: "A good female novelist ought to have enough to write about without digging up her own private garden. For me, it was just a routine relationship, and she's blown it up." Of the present "pretty bad" state of U.S. fiction, as exemplified by the "elevation" of Marjorie Morningstar, the bestseller by Herman Wouk, to its high acclaim...
...Then, Professor Angoff, you have something to learn. By the time you get around to getting your second upper plate of teeth, the way I am now, you will learn that people who don't like to drink can't write . . . Never trust a man who doesn't feel better when he's tanked up . . . But,' he spat in the spittoon, and his face became serious ... 'I have no use for anybody who neglects his work for drink ing or for women. Work comes first. All the time. Drinking, like lovemaking...
...that Thomas Lanier Williams changed his first name to Tennessee because he wanted to disassociate from the bad stuff he had written when his name was Tom. A lot of that early work was poetry; like a lot of young men and women, he had tried to write like Edna St. Vincent Millay without knowing one end of a burning candle from the other. But even as Tennessee, and even after The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire had proved where his real talent lay, Williams went on writing poetry...