Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last planes shot up, Malraux rushed off to the U.S., scoured the country from New York to Hollywood raising money and exhorting intellectuals to join Spain's anti-Fascist fight. If they lived, he said, their writing would be the better for the experience; if they died, their deaths would be more vital documents than anything they could write from an ivory tower...
Only a fraction of the Arzawan ruins have been dug up so far, and archaeologists are eagerly awaiting the final results. The Arzawans could write (on clay bricks), and presumably they had archives. If archives are found, scholars may learn what the Arzawans thought about the loudmouthed Hittites, who defamed them in cuneiform 3,100 years...
...fish that Evelyn Waugh takes whenever he lets down his nets. This novel is chiefly about officers who have always been gentlemen, particularly that "Christian gentleman,'' Guy Crouchback. It is every bit as good as Men at Arms, whose splendid characterizations and fine writing led many in 1952 to predict that its author had begun the best English fictional account of World War II. Waugh writes of the life and death of ruling-class commandomen with the authority of one who took part in raids on Bardia in Libya and fought in Yugoslavia. His eye for the ridiculous...
...most of the subjects for its articles, the "Confidential treatment" has become such a threat that confidence men have tried to collect $500 to $1,000 by offering "to keep your name out of Confidential." The magazine gets its tips from bellhops, call girls, private detectives and paid tipsters, writes all its articles in its shabby Manhattan offices on Broadway. Though it offers up to $1,000 an article, few working newsmen will write for it, and almost all its bylines are pseudonyms of Confidential's editors...
Confidential's small staff works under Editor Howard Rushmore, onetime Communist who was fired as a Hearst reporter (TIME, Nov. 1), partly for contributing in his spare time to Confidential. The editors write Confidential's articles in breezy, breathless tabloid prose, always promising more than they give ("This article will shock you"). One of the best descriptions of the kind of reporting in Confidential and its imitators came from one of the imitators, Top Secret. Said Top Secret: "How cunningly the smear is constructed. It says nothing with finality. It doesn't come right out and claim...