Word: written
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exceptional ways with a note are strictly soul-derived. Though Do You Know the Way to San Jose? is a sleekly "white", and delightful, song, others, such as Let Me Be Lonely, pay their dues to rhythm & blues. Both songs, along with several others on the album, were written by Burt Bacharach, one of the more able and sophisticated composers in the business...
...melodrama sounded like an excerpt from one of Tennessee Wiliams' own plays. "I am in a net of con men," read the hastily scrawled letter the playwright had written to his brother Dakin. "If anything of a violent nature happens to me, it will not be a case of suicide, as it would be made to appear." That sounded ominous, and everybody grew more worried when Williams disappeared from his Manhattan apartment. Reporters finally located him last week at his house in Key West, refusing to talk about anything. "He must have had a bad scare," judged Dakin. Tennessee...
Even if he does not change the thrust of decisions, Fortas, an extraordinarily subtle and precise analyst, is likely to improve their quality. One justified criticism of the Warren court is that the decisions, though progressive and humane, were often so poorly written and negligent of precedent that they were confusing to lawyers and judges in lower courts, who must look on them...
...major political and psychological setback for the U.S., he reasoned, but would leave Quang Tri province and the cities of I Corps open to North Vietnamese attack. Before committing the U.S. fully to Khe Sanh's defense, however, President Johnson went to the extraordinary length of extracting a written pledge from the Joint Chiefs of Staff that it could be held...
...point of the book was clearly that the Russian intellectuals who made the revolution would have been well pleased to unmake it. To have written such a book, even for the author's private amusement, seems foolhardy. Lampooning the proletariat was unpardonable heresy, and Translator Michael Glenny suggests a fouler crime against the state: the figure of Bulgakov's too clever professor, he thinks, may be a caricature of Lenin. Obviously, Bulgakov was courageous; he wrote with rare fury for the rest of his life, muffled but not silenced by censors. But the evidence of The Heart...