Word: authoring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Housekeeper Henrietta Nesbitt. "Whatever Mrs. Nesbitt did," wrote Mrs. Roosevelt, "she did under my direction. I remember feeding everyone for a time on the same menus that had been worked out for people on relief in the days of the Depression . . . And I remember well the day when the author of this book, my son James, said to me pathetically at lunch: 'If I paid five cents extra, Mother, could I have a glass of milk?' And there was the time [the late aviatrix] Amelia Earhart, who was staying with us on a brief visit, said...
Only In America (by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee) tells the story of Harry Golden, editor (The Carolina Israelite) and author of the bestselling Only in America. The stage difficulties involved are immediate and persistent. The adapters really have little to dramatize beyond a genially hard-hitting personality that best conveys itself in the first person, and a pungent egalitarian philosophy of life that seems blatantly pious when acted out. Adapters Lawrence and Lee must, in fact, swell out into two hours of theater what is not only ill suited to the theater, but what even in book form...
...authority on the philosophy of education, Sheffler will publish next year a study of "The Language of Education." Author of "Philosophy and Education," he has been a member of the Faculty since 1952. During 1958-59, he held a Guggenheim Fellowship...
There has been quite a conglomeration of talent at the Colonial for the past two weeks. Robert Anderson, author of Tea and Sympathy, has written a play called Silent Night, Lonely Night, in which two accomplished professionals, Henry Fonda and Barbara Bel Geddes, star. Peter Glenville has turned his considerable talents toward directing this production, and Jo Mielziner and Theoni V. Aldredge handle lighting and costuming...
James Joyce, by Richard Ellmann. A Ulyssean portrait, fashioned out of minute detail, of the purposefully enigmatic author, here demystified but not debunked...