Word: written
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ivinskaya was then serving an eight-year sentence in a Soviet labor camp on a trumped-up charge of "speculation." In 1966, when hundreds of distinguished Soviet intellectuals were publicly protesting the sentencing of Sinyavsky and Daniel to eight and five years' hard labor for having allegedly written anti-Soviet works, Evtushenko turned up at an arts festival in Dakar, Senegal. Sipping champagne with newsmen, Evtushenko said of the two writers' conviction: "I agree with what was done to them, but not with how it was done. I agree they should have been punished. Should they be allowed...
...they smashed their fists against their eyes to produce a momentary shock of light. Their agony tormented him so much that he wrote, in the November Harper's, a brilliantly brooding poetic fantasy, The Eye-Beaters. It was made particularly jolting because of Dickey's marginal notations, written with the stark understatement of a wire-service reporter. "A therapist explains why the children strike their eyes," the note explains as fact. Then...
...fragmented, sketchy way that Schisgal has written it, Jimmy Shine is like a book in which the text has been thrown away and the footnotes published. If it has any style, it might be called urban picaresque. In his Greenwich .Village flat. Jimmy (Dustin Hoffman) stumbles through episodes from his past, present and fantasy lives. Several of the scenes, and Hoffman's part itself, recall his film role as a social dropout in The Graduate. Though the audience never sees him painting, Jimmy is an abstractionist and a dud at it. He is a glutton for humiliation...
...written Oliver Twist to rip the brocade from Puritan England and reveal the human misery beneath. To those who found his melodrama too coarse, Dickens replied: "Criminal characters, to suit them, must be, like their meat, in delicate disguise ... It is wonderful," he continued, "how Virtue turns from dirty stockings; and how Vice, married to ribbons and a little gay attire, changes her name, as wedded ladies do, and becomes Romance...
...leaders are found by a spin-the-bottle technique, and the real rapport between nations rests on a Jellolike foundation of friendship between Latifundia's President and the American ambassador. Despite the apparently insurmountable handicap of so familiar a scenario, Robert Wool has managed to produce a finely written first novel that explores the personality of a South American nation while revealing the lives and characters of two strong and complex men. Neither of them fits the good-guy, bad-guy stereotypes that infect not only this literary genre but diplomatic thinking about Latin America in general...