Word: writings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Daily Spectator editors might have been the logical candidates to write a history of the Columbia affair. They were after all their own best example of the rate at which the campus's changing political climate overtook the administration by surprise --only a month before the first occupation of Hamilton Hall, the Spectator's editorial page still advised the Columbia administration to proceed with construction of the Morningside...
Simenon no longer mixes much at all. His day begins at 6 a.m. but, since he acts as his own agent, much time is taken up with voluminous correspondence with publishers in each country where his books appear. He writes in brief, intense spurts, but he is no longer quite as prolific as he was in 1928, for example, when he turned out 40 books in one year. Simenon's yearly harvest is now four, and he uses an IBM electric typewriter in place of the pencils that once lasted only three lines each before they became blunted...
...from the NBC commissary. Lunch generally comes in from a drugstore. From his office in New York, Brinkley still digs out stories and checks nuances by phone with his old Washington sources, which are, as ever, at the Cabinet and committee-chairman level. But his true vocation is news writing, and he is indisputably the best in television. CBS's Walter Cronkite edits the items he reads. Chet Huntley will write an item or two a night that he feels strongly about. To Brinkley, unhappiness is having to read someone else's copy. Even when he does...
...films long gone. As the ex-G.I., Ryan O'Neal plays a character patently modeled on John Garfield and uses an acting style that owes much to James Dean. Leigh Taylor-Young appears-frequently without clothing-as the sort of character that James M. Cain used to write about, a homicidal bitch goddess who attracts and destroys men with appetites that do not stop at sex. It is obvious that Warner Bros, hoped to package two agreeable young stars in some tried and true material. Too tried, and that's too true...
...plot is the sort of thing that gives science fiction a bad name. A writer (Michel Piccoli) and his mute wife (Catherine Deneuve) live in an abandoned fort on the coast of Brittany. She is pregnant; he is trying to write. Gradually, he conceives a weird fantasy about a mad engineer who plants control devices on the populace to destroy their free will. Reality begins to blur as the mad engineer invites the writer to sit down at an enormous electronic chessboard on which the townspeople are the pieces and the prize is the wife's fate. Writer...