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...short story is surely the most intractable of prose forms. Few authors can write one well; yet anything less than brilliance is worthless. A mediocre novel can at least be a tolerable companion; a mediocre short story is merely a bore. But a writer who masters the form hears only the faintest of applause; his publisher wants to know when he is going to turn out a novel. Collections of short stories once helped launch such writers as Hemingway and Katherine Anne Porter, but these days short stories are worth little in royalties and less in prestige. Irwin Shaw...
...beginning of his career his paintings were ridiculed along with those of other impressionists, and at the end of it he was twisted by a rheumatic paralysis that made each brush stroke an effort of will. What was so unusual about Renoir was the grace with which he bore the weight of genius. He married once and well, reigned without thunder as the head of a large, adoring household, and could always take time to speak to a stranger or persuade a beggar to accept a gift. He was, of course, frequently taken advantage of; after his paintings began...
Even before the trial it was obvious to the students that no one at Yale bore any grudge against them...
...courage of his connections, and when Nature passed out brains, Melinda Dillon's Honey was given cotton candy. The charged intensity that Director Alan Schneider brings to an evening full of talk is based on one penetrating insight-talk can kill, and murder is rarely a bore...
Cries of "Rubbish." In the week be fore the conference. 20 million copies of Macmillan's pamphlet, stating why Britain must join Europe, were circulated to every corner of the United Kingdom. At Llandudno young party workers distributed among the delegates hundreds of five-inch lapel badges that bore only one word: "Yes."' Belatedly. anti-Marketeers copied the ploy, but their "No" buttons were overwhelmingly outnumbered. To provide the facts and figures about the Market, Britain's chief negotiator, Lord Privy Seal Edward Heath, interrupted meetings with the Six in Brussels and flew to Wales. Exhibiting...