Word: writed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...barnyard portrayal of a rampageous U.S. hamlet. Cried plumpish Authoress Metalious, mother of three: "I know about small towns. A rock in a field may look firm, but kick it over and you'll find all kinds of things crawling underneath. Too much sex? How can you write a novel about normal men and women, let alone abnormal ones, with no sex in the plot? We all had a mother and father! Even Tom Sawyer had a girl friend...
...Malady One of the gravest weaknesses of U.S. education was bluntly pointed out by Dean William C. Warren of the Columbia University School of Law in his annual report. While the art of writing, said Dean Warren, "is indispensable to the achievement of distinction in the [legal] profession . . . the inability of college graduates who come to us to read and write is a malady of epidemic proportions." But one question remains: What will be an effective cure...
...less than two hours, Popo Phillips was back with her own replies to more than 70 lonelyheart letters. Their crisply confident style so impressed the editors that she returned the same afternoon to sign a contract to write six columns a week for the Chronicle under the pen name Abigail Van Buren. also landed a ten-year contract with the McNaught Syndicate. As she was leaving the Chronicle, Editor Arnold remarked to Popo Phillips that her witty, worldy replies to the letters reminded him of Ann (Your Problems) Landers, heartthrob star of the Chicago Sun-Times Syndicate. "They ought...
...actually does, the vague generality is the key device. A generality is a vague statement that means nothing by itself, but when placed in an essay on a specific subject, might very well mean something to a grader. The true master of the generality is the man who can write a ten-page essay, which means nothing at all to him, and have it mean a great deal to anyone who reads...
...This generality expert has already taken his position for the essay. Actually he has not the vaguest idea what Hume really said, or in fact what he said it in, or in fact if he ever said anything. But by never bothering to define empiricism, he may write indefinitely on the issue, virtually without contradiction...