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...Federalist Papers were probably written by James Madison. "I am inclined to say that Federalist Number 50 seems to be by Madison, and Number 54 is closer to Hamilton," Charles F. Mosteller, Chairman of the Department of Statistics, said last night in a lecture describing his statistical study ascertaining authorship...
...Often attributed to Poet-Humorist Dorothy Parker, who publicly denied authorship: "My God, no. I demand an apology for even thinking I would write such a dreadful rhythm...
Although the Satyricon's authorship has been disputed. Translator Arrowsmith feels that Petronius lived in a style entirely consonant with the wild life of the book. Even Petronius' death was artfully arranged. When palace intrigue involved him in a treason charge, he opened his veins, chatted airily with his friends, recited some light poetry; then, placing a manicured thumb to an elegant nose, he wrote out a definitive list of Nero's bed partners and sent it off to the emperor before he lay back...
...Loving" Job. In the current issue of the Century, Poet-Playwright MacLeish speaks out for himself. Whatever the opinions of scholars about the question of the Book of Job's split authorship, he takes it as a whole. The prologue in heaven is to him supremely important. Why, he asks, does God deliver the innocent Job into Satan's hands...
...gloss over. It treats writers as writers, Hollywood as Hollywood, truth as truth. It has a sense of the real thing and of what it means; it knows that, for the bedeviled writer, good intentions can be paved with hell. Whatever its flaws as playwriting, it deals feelingly with authorship...