Word: write
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...difficult to criticize, this Signature. These people are not writers; they are learning to write. Some have learned much since their last published attempts; others, A. Stavrolakes and Naomi Raphaelson, have already produced more artfully than they do in the current issue. Therefore one cannot just take aim and fire. It would be too much like shooting a fawn...
Music-loving Dr. Gustavus Capito of Charleston., W. Va. used to get a lump in his throat when he listened to Smetana's Moldau. He wondered why some American composer couldn't write as good a piece about the Kanawha, the river that flows through his home town...
Deanna testified against her second husband, 47-year-old Felix Jackson, who helped to write some of her early hits (Mad About Music, Three Smart Girls Grow Up), and produced her most recent flops (I'll Be Yours, Because of Him). She told the judge that a year after their marriage in 1945 (his fourth), Jackson "started a series of unhappy moods and a certain restlessness." She added: "About six months after that, he told me he was unhappy being a married man and preferred being single ... He left me, went to New York City, hasn't been...
Director John Farrow not only helped to write a pretty lively script, but managed to keep his highly volatile star and story under control. Also doing double duty is Songwriter Frank Loesser who, besides contributing a nice burlesque of a marcelled thug named Hair-Do Lempke, composed the songs which Betty sandwiches in between her Keystone clowning...
Some Colleges, like Stanford or Virginia, are rah-rah and nothing else. Princeton isn't; Nassau men take their studies seriously and work hard on them, probably harder than Harvard students. Freshmen and sophomores carry five courses a term, and every senior (except engineers) must write a thesis-often 60,000 words minimum...