Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Clearing in the Woods is no light summer fare; it is a "difficult" play, and demands unflagging concentration. The work is highly unorthodox: there is no real plot in the usual sense of the word; and the element of time is employed in a fluid and daring...
Morris was vaguely disturbed by all this brooding on craft. He was disturbed by the intellectual exercises of imitating ancient forms, by the thrice-weekly traipses through the scholastic limbo of image-source and word derivation. Of course, Morris was an egotist, and he awoke occasionally at midnight with the ugly thought: "What if I'm being disciplined out of existence...
...Morris believed that "authority" was important. And he had premonitions about "style," and "character development" and intricate word relationships. But Morris liked to believe he was a 3-D thinker, and there were other dimensions. He persisted in the quaint notion that a writer should say something, that exercises and elaborate from and consistent technique were the tuxedo; there was the matter of filling the clothes up with something...
Though "subsidy" has long been a dirty word in the transportation business, chances are good that the troubled rails will get some...
...told George the instant it passed," said Snedden later, "but damn it, he winked or signaled to someone, and the word got out to the newsroom and the streets. Sirens started blowing, horns honking, people shrieking and yelling. It cost me 20 minutes in long-distance time just waiting and fiddling with my hearing aid until things quieted down enough for me to give George the details for the special edition. It was probably the happiest money I've ever wasted in my life...