Word: pencilings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kings, The Ten Commandments). He strolled his sets, a demanding and benevolent tyrant, a chair boy always behind him with a chair so that the master could sit down without looking, a mike boy always beside him so that the master could issue orders. A secretary trailed him, pencil at the ready. At home, a handy pad awaited his jotted-down inspirations in every room -even the bathroom...
Newspapermen like to complain that in reporting the news, radio and television newsmen simply buy early editions of every paper in town and read the stories on the air. But there is a pencil behind the other ear. Television shows are creating more and more newspaper headlines...
...hope of future publication, though he periodically weeds and destroys some of his backlog. Occasionally absent-minded in conversation (he sometimes lapses into a preoccupied refrain of "da, da, da, da, da"), Pasternak is methodical in his writing habits. He first puts a watch on his desk, draws a pencil from the box he keeps there, and writes in longhand, reusing every sheet of paper (once on each side for separate works): "It's not only economical, but it's more cozy. The paper is not so fresh. It belongs to me, you might...
Charleston. S.C. the Evening Post went farther, dropped the whole education sequence. Other Southern editors chose to let Pogo have his say, carried his full symposium on "consegregated," "de-conseg-regated," and "non-un-de-consegregated" schools. Cracked Editor Harry Ashmore. whose Arkansas Gazette did not pencil Pogo: "I suppose some editors are worried about their daughters' marrying a possum...
...sometimes sank to a no more pretty fishwifery of her own: "I didn't pull myself out of the gutter to waste my life on a drunk like you!" The drunk pulled himself out of the gutter in the last year of his life, and using the pencil stumps with which he preferred to write, feverishly covered sheets of yellow paper with what later be came The Last Tycoon. In that unfinished novel, Scott Fitzgerald put his own glowing version of his final romance-a version immensely more moving but also more idealized than Sheilah Graham's crude...