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Word: manuscript (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bonanno's garbage and found enough evidence to obtain an indictment against Bonanno last week for conspiracy to obstruct justice. In a basement closet they also discovered a 250-page life story, detailing Bonanno's rise to leadership of one of the foremost U.S. Mafia families. The manuscript even carried a working title: My Reign, 1939 to the Present. Investigators speculated that Bonanno intended the autobiography to be published posthumously. Considering the Cosa Nostra view of such things, it still could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 7, 1979 | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...TIME cover story marking the publication of their landmark study, Human Sexual Inadequacy. So when Galvin, who has specialized in reporting on the behavioral sciences for ten years, learned earlier this year that the researchers were about to publish a major study of homosexuality, she read the book in manuscript. Her report led TIME'S editors to the conclusion that here was an excellent opportunity not only for an exclusive preview of the new research but also for a more general look at homosexuality in America. Galvin then spent a few days as the guest of Masters and Johnson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Apr. 23, 1979 | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...corporations, and a third of that by Coca-Cola), and pitifully brief. But last week it seemed as if the Chinese thought the Boston Symphony Orchestra had brought Western classical music intact off their jet. The musicians left behind sets of gut strings, pounds of musical scores and manuscript paper. They also promised to find a way to get some Chinese students to next summer's festival at Tanglewood. Ozawa was careful to point out that this would be a good bargain for both: "Americans need to see the intensity of Chinese playing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Playing Catch Up with Ozawa | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

...speed understander, and a natural-born explainer." He is also a natural-born worker. He never has fewer than three projects going simultaneously, sits down seven days a week at a cluttered desk in his Manhattan apartment and writes at least eight hours a day, banging out manuscripts at a phenomenal 90 words a minute. Unconcerned with literary style, Asimov concentrates instead on clarity. The result is a manuscript that can usually be taken from the typewriter to the typesetter. His publishers, who know a good thing when they see it, welcome his work, from which they have made millions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What Makes Isaac Write? | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...solve the problem of getting an unsolicited manuscript published? "Only by the persistence of the author," says Kosinski. Or the persistence of the hoaxer. Next time Ross submits the Polish-born author's novel he might keep an eye on the bestseller list and give the manuscript a more current title. Say, The Complete Book of Steps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Polish Joke | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

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