Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bellum set in a deserted parking lot, should have been the real paradise for the Fitzgeralds in the 30s. But by 1937, Zelda had already spent seven years in a North Carolina sanitorium. And Scott, with their daughter about to enter Vassar, his agent unable to sell a single manuscript during the past year and his total earnings from all his books in print for the same time totaling $81.18, was convinced that his life was over...
...Joseph McCarthy era, and in her book she wondered "how Diana and Lionel Trilling, old, respected friends, could have come out of the same age and time with such different political and social views from my own." Denying any personal attacks on Hellman, Trilling cited Scoundrel Time in her manuscript as an example of "diminishing intellectual force" in the community. "I know what the hell's in the goddam manuscript," commented Little, Brown Editor in Chief Roger Donald, indicating that other passages were even more critical. As for Hellman? "I find it very painful," she said, "that...
...appointment temporarily ends the two-year saga of a tenure battle that featured heated disputes about Goodwin's manuscript and a re-vote of the Government Department's original decision to tenure...
Then when some questions arose about her manuscript--which has blossomed into the bestseller "Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream"--the department moved to reconsider her, and later returned a mixed recommendation...
Most writers who choose not to teach their books, however, do so for other reasons. John Kenneth Galbraith, now Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus, used to lecture his classes from notes he compiled in the course of writing a book. As soon as he completed the manuscript, he would move on to teach another course in another branch of economics in the interest of preventing boredom. For the same reason, Craig, Fairbank and Reischauer consistently lecture in Soc Sci 11 on the parts of the East Asian tome they didn't write. Loomis decided to leave his Math I teaching...