Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plan the book, though. For 15 years, she kept a notebook on every production, doubting her words would ever be published. The first draft of The Bright Lights emerged over a four-month period of continuous work. Seldes bubbles with enthusiasm for her editor, Jonathan Galassi--"his very youth was an asset"--and for the contributions of an editor in general. In contrast to the relationship between an actor and a director, an editor is "like another self, another set of eyes"; "no interference"impedes his rapport with the writer. An actor and his director, on the other hand...
Before working on the show Borowitz had already garnered an impressive list of credits in Harvard comic theater. Last year he wrote the script of the Hasty Pudding show, "A Thousand Clones." He also kept himself busy directing his original show, "Gars and Goyles," a musical comedy of The Hunchback of Notre Dame...
...quarterback Jim Keyte kept his team in control for most of the game, forcing the freshmen defenders to play many exhausting minutes beyond their normal day's work...
...White, as part of his machine-building, is banking his political future on it, in part because he realizes that its failure will mean angry homeowners storming City Hall to protest skyrocketing property taxes. And yet, by planting confusion in the voter's minds, the business community has kept the fate of Question One in doubt. From an advertising perspective, it is far easier for opponents of the amendment to say it does no good, than for proponents to convince voters that 100 per cent valuation is a serious danger...
Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Pat and Edwin kept reinvesting their profits and borrowing to acquire more land. Today the family owns 1,900 acres and rents another 1,600?underscoring a surprising point about modern U.S. farm economics. Tenant farmers these days are no longer the classic Southern sharecroppers, who have almost disappeared, but are often expanding agriculturists like Benedict who own land too. As it grew, Pat's farm absorbed four others; in three cases, he razed and burned the houses, uprooted graceful shade trees and returned all the land to crops. Says he: "Those farms had lived...