Word: writings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they say I am the enemy of the state. To whom shall I write?" Hardy says that Evtushenko was forced to delete 80 previously published poems from his latest collection of verse and that he was scarcely alone among Soviet writers in his opposition to the invasion. The hard-lining officials of the Writers Union, he reports, were unable to gather enough signatures for a declaration supporting the Soviet action. A compromise letter was finally produced, much milder in tone and with only 34 signers - out of a union membership of 6,600 writers...
...More. The inspiration to write that first book, he says, came while he was doing research for a review he was assigned on a 1960 campaign book comparing Kennedy and Nixon. "I was interested in JFK's change from a fairly interesting, noncommitted guy into some great liberal." After JFK was published, friends told Lasky that he was being investigated by a Department of Justice official, an act he blames on Robert Kennedy-and an act that may have been the genesis of RFK. "I can't prove he was personally involved," Lasky admits. "But maybe...
Already, offers are in to write about Jacqueline and Ted, but Lasky refuses to write again about the family. "I've lived with the Kennedys nearly one-fifth of my life. I'm not a vulture. Any more would look like I was persecuting them. Enough is enough...
Like the mysteries that he plumbed, Barth himself was rich in paradox. He was a theologian who almost belligerently proposed the "wholly otherness" of God, yet he lived long enough to write a book mellowly asserting the "humanity" of a loving Creator. Though a critic of the Roman Catholic Church until Vatican II renewal, Barth had to concede that some of his most astute interpreters were Catholic theologians. He mixed profound spiritual insights with a wit that could be caustic or self-critical; a friend called him the only Swiss with a sense of humor. He was aggressively anti-Nazi...
Asking the culprit is not much help. One standard reply is that he is working on an article about shoplifting, and wanted to pull only one job so as to write with authority. In years past, apprehended shoplifters would often break into tears and beg for leniency. Not today. According to the security manager of a State Street store in Chicago: "Their attitude now is one of hostility and belligerence. Their outlook is 'I don't care. I've been there before.' And there's more violence-just the other day one of my people...