European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 23, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 of urns the stars and stripes wednesday july 23,1986 today s crossword coming Down hard on softies by Russell bake hard liners Art hard nosed and play hardball. Inevitably they Lead hard lives because hey spend so much time Between a Rock and a hard place. They work hard and they play Are hard talking too but Only because they have to be just As they have to be horde add real its. The reason life is hard. It ii full of hard rows to Are always telling children i m not going to son soap you kid i m going to hard soap you lifers not a Rose Garden. No Sirree. Life is a place where you re going to meet not Only hardened criminals but also hardened veterans who know from hard experience that there Are Only two Kindi of people inthe world those who give others a hard time and those who arc Given a hard they counsel the Young to Lake a hard eyed View of the appalled by the Granite menage often ask but won t i meet any softened veterans at Alloh yet the hard nosed hardball players of hard world Are human too but they know there Are times when the Best thing you can do for a child is to Behar hearted. And n when a child be to be told that yes height Meel one or two softened veterans u he Pur sues his hard destiny the citizen of Hardworth mus Tell the child some hard truths pro going to give you the hard facts youngster,10 listen carefully at which the child often says you mean you want me to be hard eared hard is the task of the Hardworth philosopher no child at you go through life you must be hardheaded hard nosed Bard eyed and hard hearted but hard eared is not an authorized Condi Tion maybe because it could be too easily confused will hard of softened veterans what could be More absurd. Sure veterans come in Many varieties. There Are grizzled veterans and grizzled old veterans. Wise old veterans. Canny veterans of Many a Campaign. Make thai Many i hard fought Campaign. But softened veterans never. And softened Cirni Nnoli impossible. Does anybody think we make judges sentence Criminate to hard labor to soften them can women also be hard Linen have hard noses play hardball and All the rest just like men they can now thanks to the women s liberation movement in the old Days women could be hard liners but could not be hard nosed or play hardball. They could work hard bul Natl play hard. They could be hardheaded but not hard hearted. Now thanks to the feminist movement no woman can be forced any longer logo through life with a soft heart and soft in hard world has become More delightfully Savage than Ever since in full Range of Opportunity has been opened to women. _ m place but is it any More dreadful than the cutting Edge ? inhabitants of hard world think of the cutting Edge As Mountain climbers think of Everest. It is the ultimate test. Think of hard world s greatest achievers. What will be mid of them in their obituaries three tips on Good writing by James Kilpat Rickin the introduction to his banquets of the Black widowers a collection of Short mystery stories Isaac Asimov recalls that in 1980 the eatery Queen mystery Magazine asked him to write a Story for each of its monthly issues. He thought in Over. That meant 12 a year. They were to be only2,000 words Long or so and there was no question but thai i could manage it it amounted to Only half a Day a month and in was the son of Challenge i rather two thousand words in half a Day four thousand words a Day a million words of finished prose year Asimov May not be the Best writer in the Busi Ness today but he surely is the most prolific. Born in Russia in 1920, he became a . Citizen in 1928. Hewon his doctorate in biochemistry and began writing books in 1950. By the end of 1983 be hadpublishcd237 of them textbooks science fiction three vol Umes of lecherous Lime necks a history of the for mation of the United slates a Treasury of humor books about dinosaurs Polar geography vitamins the animals of the Bible annotated editions of Shakespeare Milton and Swift. In each of the years 1975.1977 and 1979 he published 11 books. How inthe world did he do it in who s who in America Asimov explains. Hews fortunate to be bom with a restless and efficient brain and a capacity for Clear there Are three right stars for aspiring writers to steer by. A writer has to cultivate a curious and inquiring mind he must want to find out to Dis cover what it is like.1 an inquisitive nature alone snot enough. Successful writers no matter the Bohe Mian trappings of their Public images Are disciplined and efficient writers. Finally the Good writers try to develop what Asimov termed a capacity for Clear thought that is the ability to see a work froma to a the whole that is the sum of the parts and to go methodically from Point to Point along the s incredible production May make wiling sound easy. Be not deceived. Writing is hard he mailbag repelling demonstration id be at air show read a headline in the St. Augustine Fla record the Story explained repelling is used to deploy troops where Landing by a helicopter cannot be accomplished in rough Well no. A repelling demonstration might be staged by a exterminating company bul members of the 26th aviation in were rappelling Down from their Heli copter sportswriters have a Knack for coining verbs. The new York times some months ago recalled a time when outfielder Willie Mays was nonchalant ing it in Lancaster pa., Dick Young of the news remembered when of Pisarcik was Bing the giants Lon where to guide in March collected some Boot Hulk verbs "t.o. It. 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