Word: penning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...David Ely," the pen name of David Lilienthal Jr., son of the former head of the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Atomic Energy Commission...
...first political show trial since Stalin's death took place in February of 1966. Two novelists, Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel, were charged with circulating "anti-Soviet" propaganda after they had sent their novels abroad to be published (under the pen names Abram Tertz and Nikolai Arzhak). They were condemned, under Article 70 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Republic, for "dissemination of slanderous inventions" with the purpose of "subverting the Soviet regime." Since then, an even more general law has been passed removing the need to prove subversive purpose. Sinyavsky got seven years' hard labor, Daniel five. Their...
...more indisputably, when I am dead than I can while I am still alive. Nobody can bar the road to the truth. I am ready to accept death for the sake of the movement. But how many lessons do we need to teach us that the writer's pen should not be stopped while he still lives...
With success, Grandville's pen grew ever more pointed. Relying on a lexicon of readily recognizable symbols (scissors for censorship, sugarloaves for graft, a pear for King Louis Philippe's heavy-jowled face), he fought for a variety of political causes, including a free press. In addition he illustrated La Fontaine's Fables, Gulliver's Travels and Robinson Crusoe, all the time building a memorable cast of hybrid creatures, half human, half animal...
...HONEY (United Artists). Goldsboro makes a full-time business of country corn, and he manages to harvest a goodly share of tear-jerking hits. His specialties are such songs as Honey, a pitiful plaint by a new widower whose wife went to the angels before her time, and With Pen in Hand (scribbled by Goldsboro himself), an equally lachrymose ballad about a husband whose wife is throwing him out of the house before he's ready to split. Goldsboro fans love such treacle; judging by his whine, so does...