Word: evening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long run even the farmers might rebel against the increasing controls of support programs. They can catch a glimpse of their future in the proposed new potato support program. The more openhanded the Government becomes, the more strictly it may have to control what farmers grow right down to the bushel...
Austere Wage. Wald modestly denies that his weekly production feat is a one-man job. "That's a crazy idea. How could one man-even me-do so much? I get the best writers and directors in the business and I let them do their jobs. I just supervise and advise them." Actually, his "supervision" calls for a ten-hour day of directing his writers, writing his directors, casting his actors, cutting and editing film, reviewing musical scores, sets and costumes, compromising the clashes between the commercial mind and the artistic temperament. Most of his spare time, with...
...pains, Wald gets only $2,700 a week, about half of what he is worth to a top Hollywood studio at the going rate for production geniuses. Even on a living scale modest for Hollywood bigwigs (a ten-room house without swimming pool or tennis court), he moans that he can save little of it after agents' fees and taxes. Though tied to his handsomely austere wage by an optionless long-term contract that runs through 1951, Wald gets some comfort from recognition. He flirts occasionally with another studio to learn how much he is really worth, and does...
...appears to me," said Don Quixote, "that translating from one language into another . . . is like gazing at a Flemish tapestry with the wrong side out: even though the figures are visible, they are full of threads that obscure the view and are not bright and smooth as when seen from the other side...
...Even the best translation, John Ormsby's version of 1885, is stiff, and the Peter Motteux translation of 1700, the only one in U.S. print for more than a decade, has been called "worse than worthless." What Sainte-Beuve called "the Bible of humanity," and Dostoevsky "the greatest utterance of the human mind," often seems little more than a scrambled dictionary of archaic and occasionally gamy slang. A few pages of it are about all most readers can stand. As a result, the Knight of the Mournful Countenance is handed down by hearsay as nothing more than the original...