Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last year Frau Ehrengard Schramm, a German historian, arrived in Greece to write a war history. She wanted to visit Kalavryta, but was warned not to; she went anyway. She met hostility but no harm. "They were simple in their sorrow," she said, "not fanatical. They had no self-pity, but their faces expressed so much sorrow my breath stopped." She talked with one woman whose husband and three sons had been killed. "Her figure," she said, "seemed to have turned to stone...
Plugging for less stuffy language, Bernstein noted "microcosm, merchandising, macrocosm and meteorology all in one tasteless sentence," and suggested Times-men write with "prep school kids in mind constantly. You'll need them to pay your salary by and by." After discovering "Thanksgiving has come and gone and Christmas is upon us and there doesn't seem to have been a single turkey dinner served up in the news columns 'with all the fixin's,'" Bernstein joyfully wrote: "Innkeeper, wine all around!" He also pounces on sloppy checking of names. When a story from Germany...
...writes as if he might be speaking in Meeting: in a rush and freshly, with a hot honesty that will carry many a reader unsuspecting into deep waters. For Quaker Maurer's concern is that human beings think less, talk less and write less about God and the universe, and start experiencing them...
...Oxford undergraduate he joined "a little group . . . who were keenly interested in literature," but "rowing became the most important thing in life." He records only two rebellious outbursts: a spell of agnos-ticism at the age of 15, and playing hooky from Oxford exams in order to write his first volume of poems...
...sudden disillusionment is rooted in a popular conviction that universities have been and are now breeding grounds for Communism. This idea is not confined to the people who fear Communism more than they understand it. As well-versed an anti-Communist as J. B. Matthews has been able to write that "if all the colleges and universities in the United States had been closed for the last thirty-five years, our national situation would not have been any worse insofar as an intelligent approach to the problem of Communism is concerned...