Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris hotel, soft-spoken Playwright Tennessee (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) Williams was accosted by a reporter, pessimistically discussed his philosophy of dramatics. How much in today's stage plays or movies is really new? Replied Williams: "Everything has been said and resaid. I never write anything with the idea of putting any ideas into it, perhaps because I don't have any ideas. Mostly, I have a heart. I don't have any message any more." Do such beliefs lead to ambiguity in his work? Williams' workaday answer: "Life is an ambiguous thing...
...American Heritage they picked Pulitzer Prizewinner Bruce (A Stillness at Appomattox) Catton, 56. Pay to contributors is low (usually $200 for an article). Most contributors write for it as a labor of love. The magazine's success is proof of the Catton credo that "history need not be approached on tiptoe with hat in hand. It can be the most fascinating subject in the world...
...could write thousands of words and not sum up the American way of life as well as the Sears catalogue does. There it is-the American way of life; our clothes, appliances, all in one convenient book." The U.S. Information Agency agrees with this boast by Edward Hardiman, foreign-sales representative of Sears, Roebuck & Co., and has sent 3,500 copies of Sears's 1,444-page fall and winter catalogue to its 225 overseas posts as an official weapon of anti-Communist propaganda...
...limbs of this melee, the reader can detect one hero: a blond, blue-eyed orphan with a medical discharge from the Air Force, named Sergius O'Shaugnessy. Dropping napalm on Korean villages has upset him deeply (he has, in fact, become temporarily impotent), so naturally he Wants to Write. His methods are interesting. He takes a $14,000 stake to a desert gambling resort called Desert D'Or, 200 miles from Hollywood-a suburb in the literary country of tough-guy nihilism mapped by James M. Cain, Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. O'Shaugnessy does...
...practitioners of this sort of drama usually worry only about stimulating the adrenalin glands of their audiences, while asking them to leave their minds at home. Joseph Hayes, who adapted his original novel both as a play and as the present movie, is different. He knew how to write a well-sustained thriller; but when the shock of that wears off, he leaves the viewer with the sense that the film says something true about the way man thinks and feels...