Word: writings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Mass last week), 'cause the locals turned right around to sweep the New Yorkers and take two of three from the bloated beer-swillers from the Great Midwest. And all you Don Zimmer fans out there had a chance to chuckle and shine up your magnetic baseball caps and write us nasty letters about how maybe we should take lessons from the Amazing Kreskin. Well, you could be right, but don't go out and mortgage the family farm so you can buy World Series tickets, because the Bosox aren't running away with anything just...
...despair," Springsteen says, "about people trying to hold on to their dignity in the middle of a hurricane. You look around, you see people on the street dug in. You know they're already six feet under, people with nothin' to lose and full of poison. I try to write about the other choice they...
...optimistic all the time, but positive. It was never?never ?about surrender." Like the people in his songs, Springsteen reaches high, always making the big grab but never loosing aim. When a visiting English journalist suggested to him a couple of weeks ago that he was trying to write "the great American novel on albums," Springsteen just grinned and replied, "The great American drive-in movie's more like...
...invokes Kierkegaard's "sickness of infinitude" and looks back wistfully to a presumed time when ancient mystics and so-called children of nature were said to view existence as whole, seamless cloth. Matthiessen skillfully condenses philosophies, religions and ideas, but pays for stylistic niceties with oversimplifications. To write, as he does, that "the advent of the industrial revolution made new barbarians of the peoples of the West" says nothing about the old barbarians who existed in those fabled holistic ages. Was there ever really a time when mankind did not "industrialize"-make tools and weapons, use them for both...
...these dog-eared tales. The dramas in Perkins' life occurred in solitude. The thing that distinguished this editor from thousands and thousands of other industrious office workers was a private, inaccessible gift. He could read a manuscript and see the book that the author had hoped to write; then he could help him get there. Secondhand creativity is not glamorous, but with it Maxwell Perkins changed the history of American letters...