Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...believes the parched and partly torn pages, dated in the late 1790's by a British diplomat. Lord Macartney, are the preliminary notes of Macartney's visit to China in the late 18th century. A full manuscript about the trip was eventually published...
...LAST WORK by the late English historian E.H. Carr;The Comintern and the Spanish Civil War represents the culmination of a lifetime of brilliant research on Russia and communism Deutscher. Wife of Trotsky biographer Isaac Deutscher, edits and introduces the book, left as an unfinished manuscript by Carr's death, and adds a "personal memoir" of its author, with whom she worked closely...
...suggested we show the article to his father. He received us cordially at his apartment, a spacious set of rooms in one of the central Moscow buildings reserved for high government and party officials. His intent brown eyes, his whole appearance, reflected authority and self-confidence. After reading our manuscript attentively, Gromyko gave it his approval, making a few brief comments, sensible and to the point...
...course, the ART's version ofEndgame will not single-handedly banish the original to rare manuscript archives. Yet Brustein is wrong to say, as he has, that the original of a play exists only in the manuscript. It also exists in the general kind of staging which made the play a classic: sometimes it is preserved on celluloid, other times it becomes a Platonic form of a performance of that play. With Endgame, it is a timeless, barren interior of grey lighting. That aspect of the play could be 'lost' if it became popularly believed that Beckett's Endgame should...
...Princeton, was rightly proud. Initial reviews of his book, The Collapse of the Weimar Republic: Political Economy and Crisis, had sung high praise. "Intellectually and stylistically weighty," declared the Library Journal. This "book's strength is its thought-provoking interpretation," wrote a second critic. And a reader of the manuscript, judging it for publication by the Princeton University Press, rated the work as "the most important book on 20th century Germany written in the past 15 years...