Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enthralled. She contributed her carefully garnered life savings to the new Modulator corporation; her $38,000, in fact, put it in business. Between hurried business conferences Pauline and Harold rounded up some more investors-including a fellow from Delaware named Pleasant McCarty, who added $20,000. Pauline typed the manuscript of a book that Harold wrote about his experiences in space (title: Two Weeks on Venus...
...Children. Shortly before his death in 1953, his tall, thin body wracked by the palsy of a nerve-muscle disorder, O'Neill made an agonizing decision: he would destroy the cycle's six unfinished plays so that no writer could draw conclusions from his beginnings. One manuscript was spared-A Touch of the Poet, which O'Neill thought was ready for the stage. "We tore them up, bit by bit," his wife later recalled. "He could tear just a few sheets at a time. It was like tearing up children...
...Romans who fought the Punic Wars, while themselves breathing the elegant, enervating and sometimes fetid air of imperial Rome. They tended to polish more than to publish. Only Vergil attempted the epic, and he thought so poorly of The Aeneid that on his deathbed he asked to destroy the manuscript. Catullus, Propertius and Tibullus were ravaged by hard-boiled mistresses, and their poems tell of virtually the only battle they ever fought-the war between the sexes. They knew or sensed that their culture was on its long day's journey into night-and suggested mostly pleasure to ease...
Nino Pirrotta, professor of Music, praised Toscanini for his high standards of perfection, citing the many instances in which he searched for the original manuscript of a composition in order to find the true interpretation as intended by the composer...
Dear Mom . . . Unlike their elders, child writers waste few words. "Great stacks of books," says Smith, "have been written by people in an effort to explain why Rome fell ... yet none of them ever really arrived at a more sensible answer than that contained in a penciled manuscript unearthed in Greenwich, Conn, one day in 1948. It was the work of a nine-year-old boy and follows...