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Word: writed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...specialist in soul-probing among the urban proletariat, gave a group of Washington, D.C. actors a spasm of comment on his own class: "I've never known a good writer who observed anyone but himself. Megalomania is one of the prime requisites of being a good writer. Writers write out of different convictions. For example, Saroyan believes life is beautiful. That's a hard message to get over in a recession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 19, 1958 | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

...Scala's management, hated "the rule of the foreigner and the secret police." But to "keep going." he pruned, cut and distorted "his rugged talent to suit the conditions of the time." With peasant toughness. Verdi awaited the day when he would call the tune as well as write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cammina! Cammina! | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

Young Wisconsin Lawyer Haskell could fight-and write. He played a distinguished personal part in repe ling Pickett's Charge, and weeks later, the fever of battle still hot in him, he wrote his account of Gettysburg. It is the classic of its kind. Previously snatched up in limited editions as a buff's bonanza, and quoted by virtually all scholars of the battle for its vivid closeups of the thick of things, it now comes for the first time to the popular Civil War book market. The original gets tasteful, unobtrusive editing by Bruce (A Stillness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Thick of Things | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

Under the revised program, students working for their Ph.D. will have to complete ten half courses, of which six must be in Government. Previously, 16 half courses were required. In addition, the write-off requirement will be waived in special cases in which the student has had equivalent training, possibly as an undergraduate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Government Dept. Revises Requirements for Doctorate | 5/16/1958 | See Source »

...earlier poems, he warned, "I am not in as close a contact with the man who wrote them as with the author of the more recent ones." Every poet, he explained, considers his most recent works the best, "though not as good as the ones he is going to write...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Gives Poetry Commentary, Reading to B.C. Students, Clergy | 5/15/1958 | See Source »

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