The bars were marked as Walter had marked them in a small black book kept in a nearly secret drawer.

In a book review of `` The Soviet Cultural Offensive '', he says, `` Long before the State Department organized its bureaucracy into an East-West Contacts Staff in order to wage a cultural counter-offensive within Soviet borders, the sharp cutting-edge of American culture had carved its mark across the Russian steppes, as when the enterprising promoters of ' Porgy And Bess ' overrode the State Department to carry the contemporary ' cultural warfare ' behind the enemy lines.

After he had finished the first two volumes of his Lincoln, Sandburg went to work assembling a book of songs out of hobo and childhood days and from the memory of songs others had taught him.

On the way they tried to discover all they could about Burma, and they were disturbed to find that Michael Symes's book had not presented an altogether true picture.

I had had my name taken out of the telephone book, and this was partly because of a convict who had been discharged from Sing Sing and who called me night after night.

I must have written to say how much I had enjoyed his fine book The Building Of Eternal Rome, and I found he had not regretted giving me the highest mark in his old course on the later Latin poets, although in my final examination I had ignored the questions and filled the bluebook with a comparison of Propertius and Coleridge.

Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.

Both Alfred Harcourt and Donald Brace had written him enthusiastic praise of Elmer Gantry ( any changes could be made in proof, which was already coming from the printer ) and they had ordered 140,000 copies -- the largest first printing of any book in history.

He was outraged by the book and announced that he had discovered fifty technical errors in its account of church practices.

But his rancor did not cease, and presently, on March 13, when he preached a sermon on the text, `` And Ben-hadad Was Drunk '', he told his congregation how disappointed he was in Mr. Lewis, how he regretted having had him in his house, and how he should have been warned by the fact that the novelist was drunk all the time that he was working on the book.

Without the good magazines, without their book reviews, their hospitality to European writers, without above all their awareness of literary standards, we might very well have had a generation of Krim's heroes -- Wolfes, Farrells, Dreisers, and I might add, Sandburgs and Frosts and MacLeishes in verse -- and then where would we be??

Berto's The Sky Is Red had been a small masterpiece and in its special way the best book to come out of the war.

He knew all about it and had put it down in journal form in The War In A Black Shirt, a wonderful book not, for some strange reason, published in the U.S..

Investors breathed more freely when it was learned that this acrobatic dancer had turned magician and was only doing a best seller book to make some dough.

A British writer, Richard Haestier, in a book, Dead Men Tell Tales, recalls that in the turmoil preceding the French Revolution the body of Henry 4,, who had died nearly 180 years earlier, was torn to pieces by a mob.

I was surprised and sorry to find in your issue of March 4 a long and detailed attack upon a book that had not yet been published.

But Michael Sept had unmasked him, revealing he had never been a bishop, but was an Anabaptist, afraid to state his faith, because he knew John Calvin had written a book against their belief that the soul slept after death.

She made better pictures than any book he'd read, but he didn't say so.

Kirk who provided the first translation into Gaidhlig of the Book of Psalms, however, he is better remembered for the publication of his book " The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies " in 1691.

In Chinese terms, the book changed the format of histories from biographical style ( 紀傳體 ) to chronological style ( 編年體 ), which is better suited for analysis and criticism.

[...] In my opinion it is better for the book to appear mutilated than for me to say what I don't believe.

After its first release, this book sold far better than any of Butler's other works — perhaps because the British public assumed that the anonymous author was some better-known figure ( the favorite being Lord Lytton, who had published The Coming Race two years previously ).

Instead, a popular theory suggests linguistic updating, which is when " late forms may not in fact have been original to the book but may reflect the updating of vocabulary and grammar by later scribes so their contemporaries could understand the book better.

Irving Berlin quipped, " The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl ", In his book The Groucho Phile, Marx says " I've been a liberal Democrat all my life ", and " I frankly find Democrats a better, more sympathetic crowd ....

I happen to feel that the book would have been infinitely better had it been edited down to say, 500 pages, but there speaks the harassed daily reviewer as well as the would-be judicious critic.

He is better known, however, for his work as a social researcher, publishing an extensive series of newspaper articles in the Morning Chronicle, later compiled into the book series London Labour and the London Poor ( 1851 ), a groundbreaking and influential survey of the poor of London.

Wallace continued in praise: " Only Kafka's fragments get anywhere close to where Kosiński goes in this book, which is better than everything else he ever did combined.

A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy is a less influential book, although it was better received by English critics of the day.

Rosalind Millam's 2002 book Anti-Discriminatory Practice notes that " Its followers are better known as Moonies "; the entry on the Unification Church in the book is titled: " Unification Church ( Moonies )".

When you return to recover the book, even though the waiter has possession, you have a better right to possession and the book should be returned.

The book of Revelation in the Christian bible depicts a better time, in the future, after Satan and evil are defeated.

But it is owing to the popularization of Sartrean concepts that this aspect of my book has been better understood and assimilated.

*# Philosophical Chapters ( Kephálaia philosophiká ) – Commonly called ' Dialectic ', it deals mostly with logic, its primary purpose being to prepare the reader for a better understanding of the rest of the book.

Noting that the invaders have allowed the free practice of religion ( the better to pacify their slaves ), the Americans set up a church of their own and begin acting as " Priests of Mota " ( Mota is atom spelled backwards ) in order to build a resistance movement — which Major Ardmore, the protagonist of the book, refers to as the Sixth Column ( as opposed to a traitorous fifth column ).

Coincidentally Ernst wrote a Happy New Year-message for Popfoto-magazine in which he expressed hope for a better outcome of 1984 than predicted in the book he once read.

Sun Wu (), style name Changqing ( 長卿 ), better known as Sun Tzu or Sunzi (; pronounced ), was an ancient Chinese military general, strategist and philosopher who is traditionally believed to be the author of The Art of War, an influential ancient Chinese book on military strategy.

" Stratemeyer explained his strategy to a publisher, writing that "' book brought out under another name would, I feel satisfied, do better than another Stratemeyer book.

Adams admitted that while he originally planned on writing a third Dirk Gently book, the ideas which he had for it would have fit better into another Hitchhiker's book: " A lot of the stuff which was originally in The Salmon of Doubt really wasn't working ", and he planned on " salvaging some of the ideas that I couldn't make work in a Dirk Gently framework and putting them in a Hitchhiker framework ... and for old time's sake I may call it The Salmon of Doubt.

John feels honour-bound to go with him, and sadly, says goodbye to Grace Maskew, whom he loves and has been seeing in secret, and gets his mother's prayer book as a good luck charm.

" King's column yielded additional attention and sales for Fieldwork ; when Berlinski was awarded a 2008 Whiting Writers ' Award, he commented to an interviewer about his " luck " that " Stephen King, the most famous writer in the world, picked up my book because he didn't like the cover.

The first project Thalberg handed Loos was Jean Harlow's Red-Headed Woman since F. Scott Fitzgerald was having no luck adapting Katherine Brush's book.

" This likely refers to Kramer's various strokes of financial luck over the course of the series, such as optioning his coffee table book about coffee tables to a major Hollywood studio in " The Wizard ", winning $ 18, 000 in " The Subway ", successfully betting on horse races, and signing a contract with Calvin Klein in " The Pick ".

Ichikawa was a player that would play by the book while Akagi incorporated luck into his playstyle.

In the book, Farrell tends to insist that everyone must be ground down and degraded by " the system ," without any room for charm or luck, much less hard work and initiative.

The succeeding two centuries tire her out ; the court case, bad luck in love and the wars of British history eventually bring her up to the 1990s with a young daughter in tow and a book in search of a publisher.

In the later comic book series, Tintin is a young reporter who is drawn to dangerous international intrigues in which his quick thinking, bravery and chronic good luck save the day.

Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass, a collection of essays was published in book form in 2001 ( in America, as Dalrymple had little luck with British publishers ).

Doomgiver prevails over Soulcutter in that same book, turning its despair back at the Gods, and it is also hinted at Doomgiver's power would prove superior to the other Swords, including being able to turn Farslayer back at the one who threw it, that Sightblinder's holder would see a terrible apparition while remaining vulnerable, that the Mindsword holder should worship Doomgiver's holder, and Coinspinner's master would suffer excruciating bad luck.