Word: writs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disenchanted demand: "Does Eugene McCarthy want to make righteous speeches or does he want to end the Viet Nam war?" Un less Senator McCarthy's "passion gap" could be overcome, conceded his staff, the Minnesota Senator's name as a presidential aspirant seemed destined to be writ in water...
...name is writ on Glory's scroll...
...distinctively as they write, Columnist Jimmy Breslin appeared with open collar and untied tie, Writer Tom Wolfe in a white suit over a blue paisley shirt, Pop Critic Dick Goldstein with a Beatles haircut, boots and an "Indo-Russian embroidered jacket." They were joined by two new staffers, Lady-Writ-er-About-Town Gloria Steinem and Mafia Watcher Peter Maas. Harold Clurman will review plays for the revived magazine, Judith Crist, movies. George Hirsch, who came from TIME-LIFE International, is publisher...
...matter how long they live in New York City, Southern writers and editors never seem to adjust. They may not be able to go home again, as Thom as Wolfe once warned, but they resist making a home of New York. Their work, too, stands apart. To their writ ing, they bring a closeness to the soil, an abiding sense of tradition, a refreshing wonderment at the city's delights along with a certain wariness. All these qualities are much in evidence in two new books by transplanted Southerners, North Toward Home by Willie Morris, and A Pride...
...disturb his sleeping wife. And seduction scenes often show spying observers as well as oblivious lovers. Understandably, in time miniature painting became less illustration than a literature in itself, uncommonly rich in innuendo. Its message to modern men seems simply that the message need not be writ large to be a source of a thousand and one delights...