Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...department to vote on her tenure, she had not met what Mansfield called "the definite and reasonable requirement of publishing at least one scholarly work." She asked the department to postpone consideration from the fall of '73 until spring '74. Acting on the basis of a partially completed manuscript of her Johnson book, the department decided in October 1974 to recommend her tenure to the Dean of the Faculty...
...manuscript might have rotted in that locked drawer if it wasn't for Hunter's twin brother. While Fred was in Africa for the Monitor, Paul Hunter, (who is also a playwright and has four one-acts opening in Connecticut the weekend of his brother's opening here) re-discovered it and mailed it off to Arthur Ballit, head of the office for Advanced Drama Research at the University of Minnesota. Ballit was impressed and went to work at his specialty: exploring production possibilities for promising new plays. He submitted it to several contests and organizations. Eventually he connected...
Frederic Hunter has never taken a course in playwriting. The first full-length play he ever wrote was about two people living in a museum. It was produced at UCLA and enjoyed moderate success. In 1968, when he completed, after several years, the manuscript of the second play he ever wrote, The Hemingway Play, he locked it away in a private drawer. Writing is a slow, careful process for Hunter. Even if he had actively sought one, a production would have been difficult to arrange. He was, after all, a young free-lance writer without theater connections, about to leave...
...Kent State killings evidently moved Agee to begin to assemble his own list of official crimes committed for God and country. In spite of extensive CIA harassment. Agee finally completed the book last year. An English publisher accepted it after a number of U.S. firms had rejected the manuscript on the grounds that it was too boring...
...some lack of burning inspiration may be inevitable, but this novel also shows an ignorance of the most basic tools of storytelling, not to mention an absence of the literary sensibility the author has demonstrated elsewhere. If Alvarez had turned his critical eye on his own work, this manuscript would never have seen the light...