Word: written
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After Columbia, there was a carnival of books and magazine articles published by various publishers on your basic student unrest problem. Most of these were written by academic types, and most of them are indicative of the depths to which scholarship has plunged. These academics were anxious to publish, as they usually are; their literary agents told them there was a good thing going here and they should not miss out on it. Very few of them had any new ideas, but that mattered little. There they were, with more words in print. Along with the carnival came a book...
...Uomo, and finally his unanimous election as President of the European Community of Writers in 1962 signaled a waking from the turbulence of his younger years to the task of what Glauco Cambon called "a generous asceticism." The narrative poem, "Choruses Descriptive of Dido's States of Mind," written during the Fifties, brings to Ungaretti's work the knowledge that, in Cambon's words, "Experience is the progressive exorcism of illusion...
...Long-Range Study Committee appointed by the Board of Overseers has previously made known its desire to receive written suggestions and memoranda from committees and groups in addition to those with which it is arranging to have oral discussions in mid-May. It has now taken note of the April 28, 1969 announcement by the Committee of Fifteen inviting submissions of such material to it. If anyone who submits such papers would care to send a copy to the LongRange Study Committee, c/o William G. Young, Wadsworth House, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, the Committee would be pleased to have...
Above all, Styron has written a novel, not a history. "My prerogative as a novelist is such that I so not have to apologize for anything unless it can be shown to have been otherwise," he says. He only has to say it once, because he answers the historical objections anyway...
...they responded in print. Possibly only individual memoirs have provoked similar reactions, and those from a much smaller group of people. "No novel," Styron says with that heavy calm that makes irony sound imperial instead of petty, "has ever been accorded the extraordinary accolade of having a whole book written about it as soon as it was published...