Word: writes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expecting it," Shawn said of HEW. "Most bureaucrats are liars." But Califano did write that he would welcome her to Washington if she can stick by the rules until August. Will she be smoking by then? Said Shawn: "Are you kidding? Nobody will...
...with her in The Millionairess, was upset about not being cited as one of her loves. "I only wrote about things that were important to me," she replied, scarcely batting one of those magnificent green eyes. "Cary Grant was important to me. But if Peter feels strongly, let him write his own book." What is she doing next? Well, maybe moving from Paris, where she lives now, to New York City. "I have two young sons," she said, "and there is so much more opportunity for children in the U.S. than there is in Europe. And I like New York...
Another view holds science writers themselves responsible for all the doom and gloom: because scientists write only for one another, usually in terms all but incomprehensible to lay people, word of new theories and breakthroughs is sometimes passed on to the public in overly dramatic and exaggerated form. Still, the most deadpan writing cannot disguise the drama of some of science's recent discoveries. The Big Bang theory of the universe, for example, has quite correctly convinced much of the public that the cosmos is unimaginably terrifying and violent. In the light of such findings, even theories that have...
...indeed write anybody: old friends like Lowell, literary figures like Katherine Anne Porter and Walker Percy, college chums, priests, nuns, questioning students, aspiring authors, fans, cranks. She described her response to a flirtatious note from a man in Cincinnati: "I wrote [him] that I didn't think I'd like him a bit but he would be crazy about me as I had seven gold teeth and weighed 250 pounds." The diversity of her correspondents brought...
...then stands back. This record of a remarkable life is an occasion for sadness, a reminder of wisdom cut off much too soon. But the emotion that Flannery O'Connor conveyed most often was joy, and this survives intact. Once a correspondent had suggested that someone would write a life of the author. Flannery pooh-poohed the idea...