Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late Dylan Thomas, one of the best poets of his generation, could also write and speak lively, perceptive prose. Last October, home between U.S. lecture tours, Welshman Thomas recorded a broadcast for the BBC. Last week in the BBC's magazine The Listener, U.S. citizens got a chance to read what Thomas had to say about "A Visit to America...
...Escape. "At first, confused and shocked by shameless profusion and almost shamed by generosity, unaccustomed to such importance as they are assumed, by their hosts, to possess, and up against the barrier of a common language, they write in their notebooks like demons, generalizing away, on character and culture and the American political scene. But, towards the middle of their middle-aged whisk through middle-western clubs and universities, the fury of the writing flags . . . And in their diaries, more & more do such entries appear as, 'No way of escape!' or 'Buffalo...
...love, which Menninger accused him of ignoring, Kinsey asked: "How can you measure love? Nobody knows how to approach it scientifically. We shall never write about love, but that doesn't mean that I as an individual don't recognize its value." On the allegation that he translates data from the animal kingdom into human sexuality, Kinsey countered that he had not tried to draw analogies. Anyhow, he added: "Animal data are ignored in no other branch of medicine [than psychiatry]. It is apparently a disgrace to be a biologist, a disgrace to be a scientist...
Scripter Howard, who says he never had a more difficult program to write, is trying to ease up on its heavy-handed humor: "The villain in this show is not Daddy and it's not Junior-it's the great wide gap between them. To show that, I had to do the show in sharp black & white." Now I can begin closing...
...railroads is beginning to worry the Office of Defense Mobilization. The number of cars in service on major roads has dropped from 29,000 in 1944 to 22,300 this year. ODM has set a goal of 1,250 new passenger cars for 1955, will work out fast tax write-offs to help finance them...