Word: writed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...born in a small town just outside Moscow. He entered college when he was twenty-two to study economics and recalls that "at the time I entered college, I didn't know what would become of me after five years." His interest in economics, however, led him to write his thesis on food-stuffs and world trade, a field he was later to specialize in. He took his course in the evening, and during the day worked in a cold storage plant. He graduated from the Moscow Economic Institute...
...practically be wiped out. But Mr. Lamkin's dialogue is spotted with cliches. "And we laughed, oh, how we laughed. We were the happiest people on earth, without a care," and "Talking won't bring it back, Isabel. It's gone, it's gone," are representative samples. Mr. Lamkin writes so well for Mr. Scott that it is difficult to understand how he can write so badly for nearly everyone else. Many of these excrescences will probably be written out; the wonder is that they ever...
...principal diversion from the plot of Mann's novel occurs in the movie's unsatisfactory conclusion. Mann intended to write another novel about the further adventures of Krull, but he did give his novel an hilarious and epiphanal conclusion with Felix's seduction of the mother of one of his lady friends. The film does include this appealing scene, but induces too much complexity into the ending, as well as an implausible love into the hero...
...tent mate always said Bob would "never make any money in gold - all he does is write." EVELYN S. MACKAY Madison...
...note Wolfe sent to Professor Baker with the manuscript of Welcome to Our City, he described his ideas of "literary photography," the quality in his later writing which was to make critics throw up their hands in disgust, and prompt Bernard DeVoto to growl about the "proper business of fiction." Wolfe wrote to Baker: "I have written this play with thirty-odd named characters because it required it, not because I didn't know how to save paint. Some day I'm going to write a play with fifty, eighty, a hundred people--a whole town, a whole race...