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...Stella protested in an urgent letter to the editor: "My paintings are what I do, not what I omit. In fact I paint black stripes about 2½ inches wide. Therefore the unpainted white spaces between them are not the stripes but what you call the 'background...
Blessed & Peaceful. Pastor Harris, who writes a religion column in the Atlanta Journal, has blown up a storm among his readers with the news that, at the recent Southeastern Methodist Conference, the Committee on Hymnology petitioned the Methodist General Conference to authorize a new hymnal that they hope will omit such oldtime gospel hymns as What a Friend We Have in Jesus and Blessed Assurance, Jesus Is Mine. Musically, said the committee, they are difficult to sing; theologically they are inadequate...
...entertaining above all, so I'd better play up the farcical opportunities and invent a lot of by-play. Still, I only have two hours and a half. Well, I'll do a little pruning here and there in the text; and I guess I'll just have to omit the whole taunting of Malvolio in prison, though I realize it's the climax of the entire anti-Malvolio plotting. This does mean I'm upsetting Shakespeare's delicately balanced construction; but that will have to yield just this once to allow for my additions, because, after...
...Strunk loved the clear, the brief, the bold.'' White writes, "and his book is clear, brief, bold." It consists mainly of eight rules of usage, ten principles of composition, a few matters of form. Each Strunk command (Do not break sentences in two. Use the active voice. Omit needless words) is followed by a short, barking essay and examples in parallel columns-right v. wrong, timid v. bold, ragged v. trim. Strunk had pet usages; he insisted on forming the possessive singular of nouns by adding 's regardless of the final consonant (Rule 1 ). It would have...
...somewhat trimmed text, he has on occasion overlapped the scenes; for instance, the Capulets' ball gets under way before Romeo and his pals on the street outside have finished their say. The resulting production has a running time of two and a half hours. It was inexcusable, however, to omit the prologue speeches, even to accommodate the clock...