Word: written
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hard to beat. A former grocer and three-term Congressman, he shrewdly turns on the corn at country meetings, singing and playing the fiddle (Bile Them Cabbages Down), recites inspirational poetry (God Give Us Men), advocates old-age pensions for 60-year-olds. Republicans are circulating a letter written by Byrd in 1946 in which he mentioned membership in-and praise for-the Ku Klux Klan, and Byrd neither denies it nor apologizes...
...Europe-the highest honor in the literary world came as a dastardly capitalist insult, and they promptly went into one of their vitriolic temper tantrums. The Moscow Literary Gazette sputtered that the award was made "for an artistically squalid, malicious work replete with hatred of socialism," written by a traitor, and Pravda said that this "malevolent Philistine" would regret the prize if there were "a spark of Soviet dignity left in him." Prizewinner Pasternak, a gentle genius of craggily handsome countenance and unflinching integrity, sent the Nobel committee a six-word cable in English: "Immensely thankful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed...
...Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, speaking for the West, said such an agreement would not be worth the paper it is written...
...fast tune but was prepared to pay a stiff price for the piper. One-fourth of the book is occupied by the war diaries and letters of Alfred Duff Cooper, an infantry officer in France. After censoring a letter home from a soldier, he recorded that the man had written: "A lot of ships were needed to bring the British Army to France. Only two will be wanted to take it back, one for the men and the other for the identity disks." Noted Duff Cooper: "So good...
Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov. A brilliantly written novel, lyrical, hilarious and horrifying, about a middle-aging emigre's love for a "nymphet," with highly ironic variations on the theme of American innocence and European corruption...