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...bringing news of scholarly events to the academic public as they happen, The Crimson is pleased to publish a major find in the area of Milton scholarship, which is already beginning to rock the world of literary criticism on both sides of the Atlantic. The discover of this manuscript, Assistant Professor of English Paul A. Cantor '66, explains his lucky find this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Note of Introduction | 12/14/1976 | See Source »

CALIFORNIA, that vast American raisin in the sun, is the hero in Tom Dardis's account of the Hollywood years of five writing greats. In 1937 F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose wife was in a sanitorium, whose agent was unable to sell a single manuscript, and whose earnings for all his books in print during the past year had totalled $81.18, thought that his days were numbered. So when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer offered him a $1250 a week contract to write film scripts he had no choice but to accept. That his frustrating last years in Hollywood, when he tried, desperately...

Author: By Diane Sherlock, | Title: Some Time in the Sun | 12/8/1976 | See Source »

...There are standards by which writing can be judged," Shore said. Those standards are "very high" for Option III, she added, "but when you read a good manuscript you know it's really good, and you know...

Author: By Steven Schorr, | Title: The New Yorker Model: Writing to Please Harvard | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

...struggling literary magazine, Merlin, encumbered itself (in the market) by publishing sections of Beckett's anti-novel, Watt. Recounting the trials and small victories of this and subsequent publishing ventures, Seaver recalls his impressions of this awesomely enigmatic man. After refusing to reply to Seaver's entreaties for a manuscript, Beckett first appears to the publisher as "a tall, gaunt figure in a raincoat" who wordlessly deposits the sought-after manuscript at his office and departs. Beckett avoids subsequent meetings and transactions, but the gaunt, reticent figure haunts Seaver. Finally, they become friends and collaborate on several translations, most notably...

Author: By Tom Keffner, | Title: Beckett: Reclaiming the Unusable | 11/3/1976 | See Source »

...strange coincidence that at approximately the same time that Kaufman and Ferber were most vigorously denying any connection between the Cavendishes and the Barrymores, Ethel Barrymore wrote in a manuscript that has never been published in full...

Author: By Janny P. Scott, | Title: All in the Family | 10/28/1976 | See Source »

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