Word: writings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there's a room with a typewriter, where you go in for a few hours a day and tell your version of things. And you get a call from someone in a distant, dirty city who tells you that you can have more money and more time to write because people are so eager to read what you have to say. That's the fantasy of quitting. The other day I was thinking about quitting, and it was really attractive to me?for 15 or 20 minutes...
...March. A play, Teibele and Her Demon, co-authored by Singer and based on one of his short sto ries, has just premiered at Minneapolis' Guthrie theater. Now comes the novel Shosha. Few writers half Singer's 73 years are so prolific, and fewer still could write anything at all in the amiable chaos that surrounds him. "I get up in the morning," he says uncomplainingly, "and try to write between telephone calls...
...failure to understand fully the connections between politics and power, his inability to answer that most vexing of questions: "What's it really all about?" So he set aside The Making of the President, 1976 (he hopes to complete his presidential series in 1981) to write what he calls neither an autobiography nor a political history but "a long essay"-a try at fitting together the sights, sounds, persons and episodes that he had witnessed as he had been whipped around in the slipstream of American power. In Search of History: A Personal Adventure will be published in August...
...primary of 1952; and he was an Eisenhower none of us had ever known: pink-cheeked as always, but bubbling, expansive, joyful. The Minnesota primary, just over, had been contested by both Taft and Stassen, Minnesota's favorite son. And Eisenhower, not listed on the ballot, on a write-in vote, had come in second to Stassen with 37.2% of the total to Stassen's 44.4% on the regular ballot! (Ike's one-time chief, Douglas MacArthur, it should be noted, won only 1/2 of 1% of the vote that day.) Following Eisenhower's New Hampshire...
...stating he would never run for the presidency unless there was a "clear-cut call to political duty" from the American people, and he shouldn't have used that phrase. What was a clear call? he asked rhetorically. The New Hampshire primary? The Minnesota write...