Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eastern intrigue. Wong and Cornwell met in the summer of 1975 in Hong Kong. As Wong recounts, Cornwell "picked my brain" for background detail. Last October, when Cornwell returned to the city, Wong and the author "huddled in his hotel suite for two days, going over a first draft, one paragraph after another. He had charts of sea tides, timetables for events in chronological order, maps and pictures of places in old and contemporary China. Cornwell is more fastidious about his novels than many writers are about their nonfiction...
...Faculty probably will consider a polished set of proposals" this winter, Rosovsky said. He added, however, that the task force will have to pare down the current draft of the plan before then because this version would increase the number of requirements students would have to fulfill...
Organizers of the Lobby have removed these sections from the final draft of the charter and included them in the group's by-laws, Laura E. Besvinick '80, a Student Lobby member, said. CHUL only votes on items written into an organization's charter...
...that ordinary microfilm is unable to distinguish between certain shades of red and other colors, including blue and black ink, Blackley decided to start printing checks on red paper. When the checks were made out, the ink would be perfectly visible against the rosy-hued ground. But when the draft was microfilmed, he figured, it would become a blank; anything written or printed would disappear...
...throat," he confessed in Skunk Hour, a famous testament to his dark inner life. It was an outwardly tempestuous life as well. He was a Roman Catholic convert in his 20s-he later renounced the church -and a conscientious objector who served five months in prison for draft resistance during World War II. In his later years, he suffered from manic-depression and was often in mental institutions. He had three wives, all writers: Novelist Jean Stafford, Critic Elizabeth Hardwick and English Novelist Lady Caroline Blackwood. The Byronic drama of his marriages made its way into Lowell's poetry...