"she released an autobiography, ""Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It"", which became a best seller and was reprinted with a new chapter in 1970. West guest-starred on television, including ""The Dean Martin Show"" in 1959 and ""The Red Skelton Show"" in 1960, to promote her autobiography, and a lengthy interview on ""Person to Person"" with Charles Collingwood, which was censored by CBS in 1959, and never aired. CBS executives felt members of the television audience were not ready to see a nude marble statue of West, which rested on her piano. In 1964, she made a guest appearance on"
"West herself was an avid supporter of gay rights during her entire life, though in her 1959 autobiography, ""Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It"", West disparaged homosexuality, writing, “In many ways homosexuality is a danger to the entire social system of Western civilization. Certainly a nation should be made aware of its presence — without moral mottoes — and its effects on children recruited to it in their innocence. I had no objection to it as a cult of jaded inverts... involved only with themselves. It was its secret, anti-social aspects I wanted to bring into the sun. As"
"J. B. West James Bernard West (July 27, 1912 – July 18, 1983), known as J. B. West, was the 6th Chief Usher of the White House serving from 1957 to 1969. His best-selling book, ""Upstairs at the White House: My Life with the First Ladies"" (with Mary Lynn Kotz), documents his time in the executive mansion and is considered a good source of material on the First Families he served. West was born in Afton, Iowa, on July 27, 1912, to William and Sarah ( McVey) West. He graduated from Creston High School in 1930 and moved to Washington"
"until the late 1970s. He won the Houghton Mifflin Award for his novel ""The Vintage"" (1949) (published in Britain as ""On a Dark Night""), which Boucher and McComas praised as ""a brilliantly terrifying exploration of the theme that each age creates its own peculiar species of hell and Devil"". He is also known for works on history such as ""Elizabethan England"", and ""All About the Crusades"". In 1937, West married Katharine Church; the couple had one son ( Edmund West) and one daughter (Caroline Frances West) but divorced in 1952. He later married Lily Emmet. He died at home in"
"of homicide followed by suicide. West was a member of the Parole Board in its first years, as described in his book ""The Future of Parole"", and worked as a Mental Health Act commissioner 1992-7. Since 2005 he has been associated with Paradise Press, an outlet for LGBT authors, who published his 2012 autobiography ""Gay Life Straight Work"". West has studied and written on parapsychology. He was a research officer for the Society for Psychical Research, 1947–50 and a president in 1963. He carried out laboratory experiments in extrasensory perception. He wrote the book ""Psychical Research Today"" (1953, 1962). In"
"Ever Wanted was a Window"" (Pardalote Press 2002); ""Couchworld"" (Picaro Press 2006); and ""Walking Amongst Women"" (Picaro Press 2006. John West (Australian poet) John West was an Australian poet and the author of numerous books of poetry published in Australia between 1994 and his death in 2009. He died just before his ""Selected Poems"" was finalised for publication. Several hundred of his individual poems were published in his lifetime, mostly in Australia but also in the UK. He was raised in the Mallee town of Merbein, Victoria, and worked as an aged care nurse in Melbourne. His work is known"
"not a ""burn your bra"" type feminist. Since the 1920s, she was also an early supporter of gay rights. In her 1959 autobiography, ""Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It"", West strongly objected to hypocrisy while also disparaging homosexuality: “In many ways homosexuality is a danger to the entire social system of Western civilization. Certainly a nation should be made aware of its presence — without moral mottoes — and its effects on children recruited to it in their innocence. I had no objection to it as a cult of jaded inverts... involved only with themselves. It was its secret,"
"My Life With the First Ladies."" It became a best-seller. Jonathan Yardley of ""The Washington Post"" later characterized West's book as one of two of the most useful memoirs written by a White House staffer, President, First Lady, or member of the First Family. West died on July 18, 1983, at Northern Virginia Doctors Hospital (now Virginia Hospital Center) in Arlington County, Virginia, of respiratory failure. He was survived by his wife of 40 years, Zella, and his daughters Sally West and Kathy West Langhoff. J. B. West James Bernard West (July 27, 1912 – July 18, 1983), known as"
"Yorker"". Robert D. Kaplan's influential book ""Balkan Ghosts"" (1994) is an homage to West's ""Black Lamb and Grey Falcon"" (1941), which he calls ""this century's greatest travel book"" A 1990s female Canadian rock group headed by Alison Outhit called itself ""Rebecca West."" In February 2006, BBC broadcast a radio version of West's novel ""The Fountain Overflows"", dramatized by Robin Brook, in six 55-minute installments. Rebecca West Dame Cicely Isabel Fairfield DBE (21 December 1892 – 15 March 1983), known as Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, was a British author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer. An author who wrote"
"Donald J. West Donald James West (born 1924) is a British psychiatrist , parapsychologist and author. He was born on 9 June 1924 in Liverpool, England, and studied medicine at Liverpool University. He did postgraduate work at London University and Cambridge University. He studied criminology at Cambridge University. After his retirement in 1984 he was named the Emeritus Professor of Clinical Criminology, University of Cambridge. He is also an Emeritus Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge. He was particularly known for his 1955 book, ""Homosexuality"" (revised 1968), arguing for tolerance. His book ""Murder Followed by Suicide"" (1966) which discusses specific cases"
"Man of the West Man of the West is a 1958 American Western film starring Gary Cooper and directed by Anthony Mann, produced by Walter Mirisch and distributed by United Artists. The screenplay, written by Reginald Rose, is based on the 1955 novel ""The Border Jumpers"", by Will C. Brown. The film co-stars Julie London, Jack Lord, Arthur O'Connell and Lee J. Cobb in supporting roles. The film is one of Cooper's final western roles. Former outlaw Link Jones (Cooper) travels from his small town to Texas to hire their first schoolteacher. When his train stops on the way, they"
"autobiography, without coming to closure, and she started scores of stories without finishing them. Much of her work from the late phase of her life was published posthumously, including ""Family Memories"" (1987), ""This Real Night"" (1984), ""Cousin Rosamund"" (1985), ""The Only Poet"" (1992), and ""Survivors in Mexico"" (2003). Unfinished works from her early period, notably ""Sunflower"" (1986) and ""The Sentinel"" (2001) were also published after her death, so that her ""oeuvre"" was augmented by about one third by posthumous publications. West's relationship with her son, Anthony West, was not a happy one. The rancor between them came to a head"
"parents. This work was a thinly disguised autobiography (a ""roman à clef ""). In it, his mother appeared much worse than his father, whom he admired all his life. She fell out with him over it, famously threatening to sue if the book was published in Britain. It was not published in Britain until 1984, after she had died. Another one of Anthony West's best-known books is ""H. G. Wells: Aspects of a Life"", a biography of his father. A critically lauded author, he wrote novels, essays, and nonfiction works, and reviewed books for ""The New Yorker"" from the 1950s"
"I said I would like to advise my colleagues that I consider Scientology a cult and L. Ron Hubbard a quack and a fake. I wasn't about to let them intimidate me."" In 1999, West died at his home in Los Angeles at age 74. His family said the cause of death was metastatic cancer. In 2009, West's son John wrote a book, """"The Last Goodnights: Assisting My Parents With Their Suicides"""", in which he said he helped West commit suicide using prescription medication. Louis Jolyon West Louis Jolyon ""Jolly"" West (October 6, 1924 – January 2, 1999) was an"
"Rebecca West Dame Cicely Isabel Fairfield DBE (21 December 1892 – 15 March 1983), known as Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, was a British author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer. An author who wrote in many genres, West reviewed books for ""The Times"", the ""New York Herald Tribune"", the ""Sunday Telegraph"", and ""The New Republic"", and she was a correspondent for ""The Bookman"". Her major works include ""Black Lamb and Grey Falcon"" (1941), on the history and culture of Yugoslavia; ""A Train of Powder"" (1955), her coverage of the Nuremberg trials, published originally in ""The New Yorker""; ""The"
"Morris West Morris Langlo West AO (26 April 19169 October 1999) was an Australian novelist and playwright, best known for his novels ""The Devil's Advocate"" (1959), ""The Shoes of the Fisherman"" (1963) and ""The Clowns of God"" (1981). His books were published in 27 languages and sold more than 60 million copies worldwide. Each new book he wrote after he became an established writer sold more than one million copies. West's works were often focused on international politics and the role of the Roman Catholic Church in international affairs. One of his best known works, ""The Shoes of the Fisherman"""
"Short Fiction towards the 1962 Hugo Award for his early short story ""The Fiesta at Managuay"" (1961). ""Call Out the Malicia"" is West's first published book and is a collection of his short stories. John Anthony West John Anthony West (July 9, 1932 – February 6, 2018) was an American author, lecturer, guide and a proponent of the fringe Sphinx water erosion hypothesis. His early career was as a copywriter in Manhattan and as a science fiction writer. He received a Hugo Award Honorable Mention in 1962. In 1993, his work with geologist Robert M. Schoch was presented by Charlton"
"John West (Australian poet) John West was an Australian poet and the author of numerous books of poetry published in Australia between 1994 and his death in 2009. He died just before his ""Selected Poems"" was finalised for publication. Several hundred of his individual poems were published in his lifetime, mostly in Australia but also in the UK. He was raised in the Mallee town of Merbein, Victoria, and worked as an aged care nurse in Melbourne. His work is known for its conversational approach and compassionate social realism. His books include ""Stuttering Towards Love"" (Walleah Press 2000); ""All I"
"New York Times Book Review"". McNeill's ""Rise of the West"" won the U.S. National Book Award in History and Biography in 1964. The book also won the U.S. National Book Award in History and Biography in 1964 and was named one of the 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the 20th century by the Modern Library. One critical response has been that the West did not rise, the East fell or withdrew. The ""Rise"" had two major effects on historical analysis. First, it challenged the view of civilizations as independent entities subject to rise and fall as postulated by Arnold J."
"the title ""United States Airforce prisoners of the Chinese Communist. Methods of forceful indoctrination : Observations and Interviews."" West did his psychiatry residency at Cornell University, an MKUltra institution and site of the Human Ecology Fund. He later became a subcontractor for MKUltra subproject 43, a $20,800 grant by the CIA while he was chairman of the department of Psychiatry at the University of Oklahoma. The proposal submitted by West was titled ""Psychophysiological Studies of Hypnosis and Suggestability"" with an accompanying document titled ""Studies of Dissociative States"". One of the more unusual incidents of West's career came in August 1962,"
"West (short story) ""West"" is a short story by American writer Orson Scott Card, originally published in his short story collection ""The Folk of the Fringe"". Card previously published a shorter version of this story in the collection ""Free Lancers: Alien Stars IV"" (1987). In a post-apocalyptic America, Jamie Teague is traveling from the east coast to his home in the Great Smoky Mountains. Along the way, he comes across a group of people traveling on the highway and headed straight for a group of Bushwhackers that kills anyone who tries to pass. After warning them, Jamie starts to follow"
"West conceded to Murphy on November 20, 2012. He is a contributor for Fox News and his first book, ""Guardian of the Republic"", was published in April 2014. Allen Bernard West was born in Atlanta, Georgia, to Elizabeth (née Thomas; 1931–1994) and Herman West, Sr. (1920–1986) on February 7, 1961. His father and older brother were both career military officers; West's father served in World War II, and his brother served in Vietnam. His mother was a civilian employee of the United States Marine Corps. Although both of his parents were registered Democrats, West has remarked that they raised him"
"of Authors. He presented the 1986 Playford Lecture. In 1993, West announced that he had written his last book and a formal valedictory dinner was held in his honour. However, he found he could not retire as he had planned and wrote a further three novels and two non-fiction books. West died while working at his desk on the final chapters of his novel ""The Last Confession"", about the trials and imprisonment of Giordano Bruno who was burned at the stake for heresy in 1600. Bruno was a person with whom West had long sympathised and even identified. In 1969"
"only for a year (1956–57) when he was appointed to manage the paper's new promotion department. His columns were often humorous and contained observations about everyday life. He advocated the maintenance of a British connection during the Canadian flag debate in 1964. West was also sent on assignment, covering the coronation of Queen Elizabeth, the Cuban revolution in 1959, the Springhill mining disaster of 1958, the 1949 fire on the luxury cruise ship, the SS ""Noronic"", in Toronto Harbour, and several royal visits. He interviewed Orson Welles on behalf of the ""Globe and Mail"" after the famous 1938 broadcast of"
"a member of The Mackrosoft. West and Cheeba's ""Flash & Snowball"" won Best Jam Album at the 2006 Independent Music Awards. West was also winner of the 7th Annual Independent Music Awards Jam Album of the Year for ""The Olympian"" AND ""Total Recall 2012"" won R&B Album of the year. Aja West Aja West is an American funk musician. West first emerged onto the music scene in 1998 with his debut record ""White Moses"". In 1999, he released the progressive hip-hop album ""Trauma...Life in the E.R."" on his own Mackrosoft Records label. The album pays homage to artists like Beastie"
"the Polish resistance that some reviewers and readers thought she was using classified information given to her by her husband. In her later books, MacInnes shifted her subject matter from World War II to the Cold War. She continued to produce about one book every two years until her final novel ""Ride a Pale Horse"" (1984). Her husband Gilbert Highet died in 1978 and MacInnes died in New York City on September 20, 1985. MacInnes's writing reflects an affinity for Arthur Koestler and Rebecca West, as she strongly opposed any form of tyranny and totalitarianism. MacInnes died at the age"
"last novel ""The Birds Fall Down"" (1966), and overseeing the film version of the story by BBC in 1978. The last work published in her lifetime was ""1900"" (1982). ""1900"" explored the last year of Queen Victoria's long reign, which was a watershed in many cultural and political respects. At the same time, West worked on sequels to her autobiographically inspired novel ""The Fountain Overflows"" (1957); although she had written the equivalent of two more novels for the planned trilogy, she was never satisfied with the sequels and did not publish them. She also tinkered at great length with an"
"John Anthony West John Anthony West (July 9, 1932 – February 6, 2018) was an American author, lecturer, guide and a proponent of the fringe Sphinx water erosion hypothesis. His early career was as a copywriter in Manhattan and as a science fiction writer. He received a Hugo Award Honorable Mention in 1962. In 1993, his work with geologist Robert M. Schoch was presented by Charlton Heston in an NBC special called ""The Mystery of the Sphinx"". This won West a News & Documentary Emmy Award for Best Research and a nomination for Best Documentary. The documentary contends that the"
"original clothes, including her famous Bob Mackie outfits; and even sang West's hits for the movie. It proved to be one of the most successful TV movies in CBS history. That same year, a biography called ""Country Sunshine: The Dottie West Story"" was released, written by Judy Berryhill and Francis Meeker. In 1999, country music singer Jo Dee Messina covered West's biggest solo hit, ""A Lesson in Leavin'"" for her album ""I'm Alright"". The song stayed at No. 2 for seven weeks on the Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart that year, and was one of the year's biggest songs."
"as having been betrayed, both spiritually and materially, and in his writing he presented ""a sweeping rejection of political causes, religious faith, artistic redemption and romantic love"". This idea of the corrupt American dream endured long after his death, in the form of the term ""West's disease"", coined by the poet W. H. Auden to refer to poverty that exists in both a spiritual and economic sense. Jay Martin wrote an extensive biography of West in 1970. Another biography, ""Lonelyhearts: The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney"", by Marion Meade was published in 2010. Nathanael West Nathanael West"
"Bing West Francis J. ""Bing"" West (Boston, Massachusetts, May 2, 1940) is an American author and former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs during the Reagan Administration. His 2004 book ""The March Up: Taking Baghdad with the First Marine Division"", written with United States Marine Corps General Ray L. Smith, received the 2004 William E. Colby Award, as well as the 2004 General Wallace M. Greene, Jr. Award given by the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation for ""distinguished non-fiction dealing with U.S. Marines or Marine Corps life."" West writes about the military, warfighting, and counterinsurgency. In the Vietnam War,"
"The Way West The Way West is a 1949 western novel by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1950 and became the basis for a film starring Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, and Richard Widmark. The novel is one in the sequence of six by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. dealing with the Oregon Trail and the development of Montana from 1830, the time of the mountain men, to ""the cattle empire of the 1880s to the near present"". The publication sequence started with ""The Big Sky"", followed by ""The Way West"", ""These Thousand Hills"","
"serving with RAAF Radio ""The Voice of the Islands"" from 1942 to 1945. He returned to the ABC as an ordinary announcer, pursuing his theatrical interests at every opportunity in his off-duty time until 1964 when he was able to combine his profession and passion in the weekly programme ""The Showman"". A second program, ""Sentimental Journey"" in which he resurrected old gramophone records from the ABC's record library, as well as his own and those of fellow enthusiasts, followed in 1978. Both continued after he ""officially"" retired in 1989. West was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM)"