Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Slight of Hand. In Buffalo, up for sentencing after pleading guilty, Forger Leander Jones confided to the judge that he could neither read nor write...
...sound British critic has called 28-year-old Roger Nimier "one of the most brilliant writers in France," but there must be a lot of shocked Frenchmen who wish he had never learned to write. At 20, in 1945, Nimier joined the French 2nd Hussar Regiment and wound up in Germany at war's end. Five years later, in The Blue Hussar, he described French troops in action and occupation with a bite and candor that made most U.S. war novelists seem like self-pitying recruits. Now, even in a tasteless and jazzed-up translation, it is a novel...
...being French and in the same outfit. Politically, they are a mixed bag of Communists, Gaullists, Petainists and what not; some of them hate each other more than they hate the enemy. But in spite of their petty feuds and cynicism, most of them fight well. Author Nimier can write crackling scenes of ground combat, and he uses combat to expose the personalities of his men, not to show off his qualifications as a war novelist. But whatever they are, cowards or brave men, Nimier's hussars live on the page, right up to the bullet that gets them...
...Three of the recent TIME cover personalities shown here are identified by the three groups of statements below. No score for this section, but just for fun, see if you can write in the correct name on the first clue. If not, read the second clue. And don't feel too bad if you have to go on to the third...
Members of the Committee, in considering Salzburg, sought out the opinions of mature and responsible members of the Harvard community who have recently taken part in Seminar sessions. Students are reminded of their opportunity to write-in Salzburg as recipient of their contribution. Kirby L. C. von Kessler '54 Robert C. Terry...