Word: marginalia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...adds, has "pressed for its success in ways in which we didn't intend to. This has had the effect of scaring people." It pressed newsstand operators, doughnut men, photographers, and others; all little men, marginalia in a growing concern. The HSA is growing; no doubt about that...
...along to "skits." What about? "A bird, a dog. a boy. a tree." Out of these literary acorns, feels Lowney. giant novels may grow. "I mark them and I write ideas all along the margins where they could develop, where they could get a stream of consciousness." Her marginalia are often crisp ("This becomes idiotic") and sometimes to the point ("You say his uniform was clean. This is the first time I've seen anyone in this story with any clothes on"). Says Tesch: "Lowney really helped me. She went through that book line by line...