Word: writed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Times reporters roving the Middle West, generally have little appeal. ("Eisenhower is ordinary-like," said a gasoline-station attendant in Oceana County, Mich., "and so is Kefauver.") Expounding on "The Case for the Democrats" in last week's Saturday Evening Post, House Speaker Sam Rayburn managed to write 4,500 words of a 4,700-word article before mentioning the candidate's name. Stevenson's campaign managers are well aware of their problem, are carefully following the "reverse coattails" strategy (TIME, Sept. 10) of linking Stevenson with local candidates and local issues...
...Georgia legislature commenced the final act of a political drama opened 25 days earlier when gallus-snapping Gene Talmadge, after 20 years of politics and prejudice, died on the eve of his fourth gubernatorial term. Aware that Gene was seriously ill on election day, some supporters had cast write-in votes for his son, gone out to marshal dead voters whose names could shoot his total higher. Now as the rain pattered outside, and shouting, drinking countrymen watched from the gallery, the legislature considered the two men eligible to succeed the departed Gene. With smug solemnity...
Government majors will receive an especially warm welcome this election year from the editorial board. A knowledge of state and federal politics, if combined with an ability to write, is a valuable asset...
During a single half hour in Oregon, a Kefauver press conference was scheduled, unscheduled, rescheduled and unrescheduled. Even Tour Director Charles Tyroler was moved to write a parody of the fickle itinerary. Sample: "11 a.m., previously unscheduled press conference in airport lounge. Kefauver drops bombshell. No ime to file. 12, rally in phone booth at local drugstore . . . Note-due to time changes and miscalculations by Kefauver staff, group is scheduled to depart Yakima Defore arrival there...
...sounded his defiance most sharply in answering F. Scott Fitzgerald's advice to write more like Gustave (Madame Bovary) Flaubert, who "has consciously left out the stuff that Bill or Joe ... will come along and say presently." Snarled Wolfe: "Just remember that although Madame Bovary in your opinion may be a great book, Tristam Shandy is indubitably a great book because it boils and pours ... A great writer is not only a leaver-outer but also a putter-inner, and Shakespeare and Cervantes and Dostoievsky were great putter-inners and will be remembered for what they...