Word: writer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Charles Schulz said it once: you only have to be a halfway good artist and a halfway good writer to be a cartoonist. I know my limitations. I could never make it as a writer, and I could never make it as a fine artist. Thus the world of cartooning was waiting for me to come along. I have plenty of partial ability...
...Rezzori mainly for two richly convoluted memory novels of Europe before and after World War II, Memoirs of an Anti-Semite (1981) and The Death of My Brother Abel (1985). The Snows of Yesteryear looks back before their time frame, to the childhood and, implicitly, the formation of a writer. It leads into a world now irretrievably lost, its values blown away by World War I and its fortunes wrecked by the inflationary '20s -- "For the class to which my parents belonged . . . a fall into chaos, into impotence and deprivation...
...West Germany, William Toetoek, an ethnic German writer who immigrated from Romania, was interviewed on Bremen radio and quoted witnesses in Timisoara as saying 300 to 400 protesters were killed and hundreds injured...
...WRITER-REPORTERS: Edward M. Gomez, Alain L. Sanders...
...work at Plympton Street is far from complete. "Factual" or not, sarcastic criticism is arrogant and pompous. When such an accusation is left unsigned--as it was on Saturday--it is also an act of cowardice. The comic irony, of course, is that the issue addressed by the anonymous writer in this case relied upon the fact that Indy staffers Cornwell and Lattmann identified themselves as authors--a minimal journalistic standard with which your writer did not even comply. We wonder...