Word: writes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gentle voice was sometimes replaced by an incisive tone and wry with which were used to make her point. A man asked her if it was possible for women to have babies and write books (at the same time), to which she quipped, "It is a consummation to be divinely desired...
...creative ability survived difficult circumstances, but her own success in writing does not free her from social conscience. She wishes to bring the freedom and spirit, which allowed her to write, to all the people; especially to women. Robert Coles said in a review of her book, Tell Me a Riddle, "She has been spared celebrity, but hers is a singular talent that will not let go of one; a talent that prompts tears, offers the artist's compassion and forgiveness, but makes plain how fierce the various struggles must continue...
...More specifically she never fell prey to what she termed "the two great excuses": self doubt, or circumstance. "Some people say, 'If only I had gone to this school,' or, 'If only I hadn't gotten married...,' or even worse, 'Perhaps I was only kidding myself, I can't write.' Fortunately I never had these doubts which silenced so many others...
HANTA YO'S value, then, does not lie in its greatness as a novel. Rather, it is important because of its authenticity, subject matter and message. But in choosing to write a novel about the Sioux, Hill has perpetrated the Plains Indian myth. She has not shown Americans the real, native American, the Indians who were the same in 1750 as they were in 1410. Instead she has only given Americans what they have idolized since they helped create him: the scalp-wielding, horse-riding savage...
Marius's proposal also fails to deal with the broader problems in the Expository Writing program as a whole. By most accounts, other Expos courses do not train students to write skillful expository prose either, and certainly do not motivate already-competent essay-writers to improve their prose, a merit fiction teachers claim for the fiction options. Marius would do well to concentrate his reforming energies on these far more serious drawbacks to the program, so that Harvard's required Expository Writing course will begin to turn out accomplished, or at the very least, competent, writers, as it is supposed...