Word: statement
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...third and final try. Harry Bridges, currently appealing a perjury conviction which may cost him five years in prison, stood up to make a maudlin appeal: "The FBI are waiting to pick me up after this meeting,"* he shouted, "and before they do I want to make a statement of policy." But Harry's longshoremen would have none of him. They shouted and booed him, then roared overwhelming approval of a resolution which said: "We go on record without any doubletalk that we will support our Government and our President 100% in this great crisis and we will load...
What is the object of a novel? "The non-poetic statement of a poetic truth." At what point does the novelist get his perceptions about his characters? "In the course of the actual writing of the novel . . . The novelist is in the same position as his reader. But his perceptions should be always just in advance." What is the novelist's-or any writer's-object? "To whittle down his meaning to the exactest and finest possible point. What, of course, is fatal is when he does not know what he does mean: he has no point...
...Pritchett, the best critic in Britain today, has called these and the rest of her pungencies the only really instructive statement on novel writing that he knows. Carpers may feel that she merely tells how to write like Elizabeth Bowen if you have the luck to be Elizabeth Bowen. But even that is something which few writers writing of their craft have managed...
...advice, consultation and actual participation in Nationalist China are welcomed in principle by the Generalissimo. He meant exactly what he said in his recent statement to the effect that any mission or force which General MacArthur cared to establish on Formosa would be welcomed. But the conditions attached to this attitude must be clearly understood by everyone concerned. First, the sovereignty of Nationalist China must not be infringed-it is of utmost importance that everyone understand that this principle will be upheld to any extent and in any way necessary by the Nationalist forces on Formosa. Nationalist China...
...cryptic statement last week, Chaplin's office announced that U.A. had been sold. The buyer was a syndicate "of Eastern investors," whose front man was Paul V. McNutt, ex-U.S. High Commissioner to the Philippines and former chairman of the War Manpower Commission. Neither McNutt, Mary or Charlie would disclose the terms, but Hollywood gossip was that McNutt & friends: 1) had agreed to pay some $5,000,000 for the company; 2) hoped to produce films on their own; and 3) were dickering to hire independent Producer Stanley (The Men) Kramer (see CINEMA) to boss production...