Word: firstness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This is the first book I've written that I've felt under no time pressure to finish," he said at a reception after the reading. "I frequently start 200 pages into the novel, then work backward from the ending. I always begin with an epilogue and then struggle with the middle which usually comes slowly...
...Garp" was Irving's first success and he explained that his earlier books "suffered from relevancy" and were too caught up with the news. He continued writing, however, because he had nothing else to do, he said. "Some writers can entertain the possibility of doing something else. I don't have any other options," he added...
About 40 students, reporters, and King staff members attended the party, which marks the students for Carter's first fund-raising venture...
...wasn't until the second policeman arrived that they got him handcuffed and under control," Rivkin said. He added that the man shouted that the first policeman had hit him and "that he would have his day in court...
After Dionysus pronounces his name as both deye-yon-i-sis and deye-yo-neye-sis in the first two minutes, you begin to sense the shape of things to come. Later, you will hear Lysistrata pronounced as both li-si-stra-ta and leye-si-stra-ta, but by then the mispronounciation will seem only a minor quibble. Demos' portrayal of Dionysus is pompous, even smug, as it should be, but his pretentious remarks about respecting the sanctity of Aristophanes' play, whether performed in Athens or the Winthrop JCR, rings hollow. Director Estrada didn't, why should...