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According to Carter, he has received more than two dozen grants from the government. Only once did a government agency try to pressure him into changing a manuscript, he said, because the agency did not approve of one chapter of Carter's report. Carter added that he reminded the agency of the University’s policy of academic independence. Eventually the report was publishedunmodified in the mid-1990s...
...variation on a surrealist parlor game, a small group of Harvard students pass around a blank sheet of manuscript paper folded like a fan, each one writing a line of music without being able to read any more than the musical notes directly preceding it. After each composer has contributed to the work, someone will sit down at a piano and play whatever surprising creation the group has devised...
...origin of the bikini, however, is distant in many ways from its modern-day counterpart. Marilyn Morgan, a manuscript cataloger at the Radcliffe Institute’s Schlesinger Library, explores the complicated past of the bikini and its ties to gender roles and competitive women swimmers in her upcoming book “Beauty at the Beach: Marathon Swimmers, The Media and Gender Roles in American Culture...
Editors, though, were initially not sure what to make of her manuscript...
...final sequences of Ellison’s narrative, which occur early on in his manuscript, leave Sunraider facing not hopelessness but uncertainty. Bliss lies in critical condition but is still alive, with Hickman helping him finally retrace the complexity of his muddled experience. Hickman’s advice to Bliss is equally applicable to Ellison’s unfinished novel: “Somewhere through all the falseness and the forgetting,” Hickman urges, “there is something solid and good...