Word: writed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into bed at 6 a.m. Said he, on the recent occasion of receiving an honorary doctor of laws degree from Ohio's Wilberforce University: "I know of no other job I would prefer-than to go wherever I want to go, see whomever I want to see, and write whatever I want to write...
Henry Bourne, a junior who came here with Advanced Standing, mulls over the problems of the Zeitgeist postulate in historical writing. Examining Henry Adams' Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, Huizinga's Waning of the Middle Ages, Panofsky's Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism, and Southern's Making of the Middle Ages, Bourne finds that the first two historians tend to invoke a time-spirit to explain the relations between different aspects of medieval culture. The positing of a time-spirit raises questions akin to those of the nominalist-realist controversy which occupied the minds of the medieval man that these historians...
Driving Is More Fun. There she lives alone in a two-room apartment over the school. The one thing she leaves to others is cooking. In the office she usually dictates letters, though she has learned to write-far more legibly than most people with normal hands-with a special pen hooked to her stump. Dr. Carlsen attends conventions all over the country, traveling easily by plane or train if it is too far to drive. But driving she loves, in a car with special controls, like those for handicapped veterans. "It's the only thing...
...hadn't given much thought to another book, but speculated that one might be published next year, "maybe it will be something about the Presidential elections." "My next project" he said, "will be a screen play. Someone came along one day and said, 'How'd you like to write a movie script?' I said, 'Gee, yeah.' So, this summer I'm going to try. It's something I've always wanted...
...that he is enjoying a moderate degree of success by satirically trampling on virtually all of the contemporary fads and values, even he doesn't know who is buying his books. What's more, he doesn't seem to care, as he refuses to write for a particular audience. "I think it would be fatal to do it," he commented. And then he added philosophically, "When I stop pleasing me, I might as well quit...