Word: writes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...finish letter now, cause I can't think of no more to write. But I still am-- Toivo From Hibbing...
...these stories, a hilarious account of a writer's development, which ranks as a small comic masterpiece: "First try to be something, anything else... Fail miserably. It is best if you fail at an early age--say, fourteen. Early, critical disillusionment is necessary so that at fifteen you can write long haiku sequences about thwarted desire." But in the middle of all the wisecracking remain passages that ring out with such truth that they communicate directly to the reader the pleasure of literary creation, "those brief, fragile, untested moments of exhilaration when you know: you are a genius...
...reporters in Ankara, "and we don't want to talk." Back in Connecticut last week, Miller observed of the Turkish press: "We couldn't find an editor who wouldn't say that he couldn't tell the whole truth." Miller and Pinter will have no such restraints when they write their reports to PEN on the state of Turkish intellectual freedom...
...Italian Jewish novelist Prime Levi, who has devoted much of his life to trying to express what he witnessed as a prisoner at Auschwitz, has written that "our language lacks words to express this offense, the demolition of a man." When we write of radical evil in the world, we can record the details of its existence, the facts about its operation, but we cannot translate the darkness itself. More words betray...
Having just completed a thesis, I understand the effort and the discrimination it takes to successfully write one in any department. The attempt by the Crimson reporter to demgrate the efforts of those in any department through the misuse of my words is deplorable. It is truly unfortunate that what should have been a time of unmitigated joy has been turned into something ugly by irresponsible journalism. I hope the Crimson will take steps to ensure that this does not happen again. Barry D. Ford...