Word: manuscript
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...actions. However, this seems to be a matter of scope rather than her Harvard affiliation. The writing and publication of “Opal Mehta” lie entirely beyond the purview of her academic work and therefore beyond the purview of the Ad Board. That she drafted the manuscript in a Lamont carrel is wholly irrelevant...
Ernest Hemingway was so embittered by his experiences in Hollywood that he formulated what might be called Hemingway's Rule for Dealing with the Celluloid Bastards: Drive your car up to the California state line. Take your manuscript out of the car. Make them throw the money across first. Toss them the manuscript, get back in the car and drive back east as fast...
...According to Editor Benjamin L. Purkert ’07, the Gamut got the idea for such an issue from major publications like American Poetry Review and Poetry Magazine. Interested undergraduates looking to be the next big thing in poetry are asked to submit a 10-to-15 page manuscript of original work, which will then be judged for “artistic merit, evocative language, and innovative treatment of image,” according to Purkert. The mag is soliciting writers through ads posted around campus and such unlikely places as the Advocate e-mail list. It seems that...
...collaborator, Andrew Gross, used to run the sports-equipment company Head, but his dream was to write novels, and he couldn't get any traction with publishers. One day he got a call: Patterson had seen his manuscript and wanted to have breakfast. "Basically what he said was, I've got a lot of stories to tell, and nobody has the resources to tell 'em all, and would I like to talk about a project with him?" That was the beginning of a seven-year partnership, a highly educational one for Gross--he jokes that it's the equivalent...
...rather, see the 31-page papyrus tractate. Provocatively titled The Gospel of Judas, the alleged Coptic Egyptian translation of a 2nd century manuscript promises to be a kind of Da Vinci Code--style everything-you-know-is-wrong thrill ride. According to its holders, the text will be unveiled this spring for the first time in at least 1,500 years. If your Coptic is rusty, there will be an official translation, and a National Geographic TV special in late April, they say. (Geographic declines comment.) You'll have eminent co-viewers: scholarly interest reaches up to the Vatican...