Word: written
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strangers, swearing at friends and consigning his enemies, who are many, to hell. When he made his big decision last week, Mr. James Breslin informed the world in his own waggish way-with a Page One ad in the New York Times, a paper for which he has never written. It said: "ROBERT j. ALLEN: You are on your own. I am giving up my newspaper column. Jimmy Breslin." It set Jimmy back...
...shoulda gone to an Ivy League college, then I coulda lied like the rest of them jerks wearing the striped ties." He seems overly proud of his limited tastes in literature. "Portnoy's Complaint! I don't read nothin' that ain't written in English...
...life with an old man!" But this is ridiculous. She reasons that age need not mean decline; that even though one's body is no longer 20, to a reflective mind there are enormous advantages in possessing a rich lode of memory; and that she herself has never written so well...
Together with Journey to the End of the Night and Death on the Installment Plan, the book, published in Europe in 1957, concludes a crazed autobiographical trilogy-one of the most terrible ever written. Its perverse moral passion is all the more forceful because its obscene invective, snarled out in the argot of the streets, is that of a slum Savonarola raging against men not for living wrongly but for living...
...letter does not necessarily reflect his reaction to the students' report, since he sent it weeks before the report was written. Another of the report's authors pointed out yesterday that the reforms they advocate are much more complex than the ones Brant presented in his letter...