Word: penning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Send Pusey to the United Fund and von Stade back to his stable. Traditionally the Yard has been a cow pasture, not a pig pen, a circumstance which may be of interest to Harvard's legions of traditionalists...
...charismatic figure with a following that rivals film fan groups. His purpose, it tells us, is to discover "how far poetry can be pushed and still remain poetry." Henri has succeeded in pushing it no farther than the tip of his pen. He has little subtlety, less of the wholly honest examination of a private universe that is expected of the serious poet. He facilely manipulates external symbols and cliched concepts, a presentation masquerading as a penetration...
Taken on its own terms Tonight at Noon may be entertaining, like reading a bus poster. But on the whole it is pedestrian and pretentious. The book does not deserve a nasty pen. It deserves a shiny pie plate...
Nora was looking over lines. Tim was drawing out the night's shots with a felt-tip pen (He tries to draw out every shot in advance, and usually the actual takes look amazingly close to his scribbled sketches.) Phoebe sat quietly, smoking a cigarette. Tommy had driven into town to get some supplies: a deck of cards (which he ultimately forgot), a bottle of bourbon, pizza, and, for Nora, a pear. Eric fiddled with equipment for a bit, but mostly just stood, staring at the fire...
Died. Traven Torsvan, 79, known by his pen name, "B. Traven," reclusive author of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and some 15 other novels; of a kidney disease; in Mexico City. Traven shrouded his life in such secrecy that no one could even be sure where he was born (among the theories: Chicago, San Francisco, Germany). "Of an artist or writer, one should never ask an autobiography," he once said, "because he is bound to lie. If a writer, who he is and what he is, cannot be recognized by his work, either his books are worthless...