Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million in annual sales), signed up conservative stalwarts, including Jerry Falwell, as editors. There will be considerable commercial fanfare when the full Bible comes out next year. But like the old King, the New King is hobbled by its dependence on what even conservative experts agree are outdated manuscript sources...
When Richard D. Brecht was denied tenure in the spring of 1979, he took the unfinished 500-page manuscript of his book on tense in Russian grammar and packed it in a box on shelf. It has remained there ever since, although the shelf is no longer in Cambridge--Brecht's home since 1965--but at the University of Maryland, where he is now chairman of the department of Germanic and Slavic languages and literatures...
...publications and authors who became household names. Those authors live again in a series of anecdotes. John O'Hara, who once threatened to "break every bone in your body" after Mayes refused to send him $25,000 forthwith for the right merely to read the manuscript of Ten North Frederick for possible excerpting. Eleanor Roosevelt, a onetime McCall's contributor, who offered him a ride home one night, though she did not have a car. "Let's both go out and stand on the curb," she advised, "and pretty soon somebody will come along...
...drown out variety. But Author Eudora Welty, 71, survives the ordeal of retrospection beautifully. Her Collected Stories reprints all the works from four earlier collections, plus two previously uncollected pieces written in the '60s, a total of 41 stories dating back to 1936, when a "little magazine" called Manuscript first published her. At that time, the young Mississippi writer could not have guessed that she was enlisting in a new confederacy of Southern letters, one that would rapidly push her forward as a standard bearer. She was intent on simply getting down imaginatively what she saw and heard around...
...writing a poem is an act of faith; yet if the screams of the tortured are audible in the poet's room, is not his activity an offense to human suffering? And if the next hour may bring his death and the destruction of his manuscript, should the poet engage in such a pastime...