Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Typically, Ros used this information not to change her talkative ways but to dragoon her two friends into helping her write a wordy, autobiographical play called The Winter's Tale. Its heroine's misadventures were strikingly like those that afflict Ros in Wonderful Town when she sings "One Hundred Easy Ways to Lose...
...When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, 'I am going to produce a work of art.' I write it because there is some lie I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention...
...shorter pieces, such as "Why I Write" (which contains the statement quoted at the head of this review), "Marrakech," and articles on such diverse topics as "nationalism," anti-Semitism, and broadcasting poetry, maintain the same stimulating pace and tone...
...quick glance at the stories would show), and implies that these stories rely upon alliteration for their effect. He provides no evidence for any assertion. Having placed Sweeney among the nightengales, Mr. Halberstam finds it unnecessary to even mention by name those authors who seem to be contented to write verse in traditional forms. He would evidently have us believe that they are all alike, for he accuses them collectively of not yet being T. S. Eliot--a remark that might be leveled against everyone except Mr. Eliot. Mr. Halberstam is evidently not sure if these poets have nothing...
This is not to say that anyone cannot read creative writing and form his own judgments; it is simply to say that not everyone has the critical tools to express these judgments well, and not everyone has the interest to write a competent review for those readers who are also interested...