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...Kushner could make a good, entertaining guess. Spielberg had long wanted to work with the Pulitzer prizewinning author of Angels in America, and once he had solved Kushner's concerns about formatting a screenplay ("I said, 'Well, there's a program called Scriptor--put it on your laptop and you don't have to worry about that again'"), Kushner said he would try a few scenes. They became a 300-page first draft, written largely on spec, after which he and Spielberg happily collaborated for a little more than a year to complete the script. "You speak the words...
...struck, for the piece in question was striking, frappant even. God and Man at Yale, God and Nude at the Daily! I thought of Carlyle. Shall we sartus, let alone resartus, the sartor? Shall we, while we're about it, clothe the Yale Daily scriptor? Through the turbid sophomoricism of what Mr. Snotbottom is doubtless pleased to call "prose," I seemed to detect an affirmative reply...
...last ten years Monsignor Bacci has been doing his best to revive and enliven the Latin of Cicero (106-43 B.C.). As editor of the Latin Dictionary of Modern Terms, he has translated hundreds of post-Ciceronian words and phrases, from newspaper reporter (diurnarius scriptor-daily writer), to spaghetti (pasta vermiculata-little worm-shaped dough) and "Tennis, anyone?" ("Ludere manubriato reticulo quisnam vult?"-"Is there someone who wants to play the game of the net with handle?"). Last week, Monsignor Bacci was embarked upon a new project: publication of the world's first international Latin quarterly...
...true-to-life flavor of Report to the Nation's dramatic episodes, credit goes to a staff of scriptwriters that has included onetime FORTUNE Editor Richard Hippelheuser and Library of Congress Researcher Joseph Liss. Scriptor Liss knows how the U.S. people talk because he has been all over the country recording their voices, tales and songs for the Library's collection of sound transcriptions. On one Report some of the transcriptions themselves were used, putting on the air the reactions of fanners in the Tennessee Valley to the defense program...
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