Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Briton, Henry Moore, was part of a Moore show at the Curt Valentin Gallery. Moore, as renowned in his own lifetime as Blake was scorned in his, received the usual all-out praise from Manhattan critics. The New York Times's Howard Devree went so far as to write that "the figures stand or sit or lie like members of some ancient race of prototypes of man, self-contained and with vision that goes out over larger areas of experience than those of mortals, and with a kind of wintry" courage that is not mere passive resignation. Moore...
...planned to marry. He then had the young lover imprisoned in a monastery with a lettre de cachet. But Denis escaped, dashed after his chérie, married her and almost immediately stopped loving her. There followed a succession of mistresses. The first was expensive and forced him to write his early books about philosophy to provide her with pocket money. The second was Sophie, Diderot's great love. "Ah," he rhapsodized, "what a woman! How tender she is, how sweet, honest, delicate, sensible!" But she was hardly a beauty. At 38, she was well past the first blush...
Yerby started out trying to write "serious" fiction. In 1944 he worked up a Richard Wrighteous novel about a boy in the steel mills. "A perfectly terrible book," says Yerby now. "I was in love with Bessemer furnaces - an unrewarding kind of a romance." Yerby then made his decision. He quit his foundry job and went to New York. He told the Dial Press's George Joel, the only publisher who had shown a faint interest in his steel-mill epic, that he wanted to try a fast historical opus. On the strength of 27 pages turned...
Yerby sometimes talks of writing "something really good eventually-when I'm 50 or 55 perhaps." In the meantime, "I write the kind of books I write because it's the only kind I know how to write. Besides, I don't think it's the writer's job to try to change moral, political and religious beliefs. For all Tolstoy's arguing, people go back to Anna Karenina for Anna and that...
...most important thing one can say in launching a new magazine," Raditsa declared, "is to hope that it stimulates people not only to read and think, but to write for it, to speak out and experiment...