Word: writer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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With regard to preparation, rehearsal means preparation. It is more important for an actor to be prepared than any other man. While a writer has a chance to revise his work, the picture which an actor presents upon the stage is indelible and can never be gone over again. Therefore preparation is most important and speaking of preparation, an anecdote occurs to me. The last evening that Mr. Florence and I gave "The Rivals" together in New York, Mr. Florence suggested that we arrange our speeches. This I thought to be an excellent plan, and accordingly we prepared our little...
...writer of the communication in the CRIMSON of May 4 upon the desirability of a sophomore debating club expresses what a large number of freshmen have already felt...
...lecturer next spoke of Dr. Birkbeck Hill's "Harvard College by an Oxonion." This book, said he, is an admirable account of the college from its earliest days to the present time. The writer has a pleasant, rather old-fashioned, literary quality, which lends itself better to narration and comment than to the making of any lively or complete impressions of our complex academic life at the passing moment. Dr. Birkbeck Hill was evidently deceived in one or two minor traits of college civilization by undergraduates with a taste for the American joke. In the main, this English writer...
...history of Athens. There seems to have been some quality inherent in the atmosphere of Attica, which had the remarkable honor of producing comic poets. The names of no less than one-hundred and sixty-eight of these are known. Aristophanes was by no means the only great comedy writer of his time. It is certain that he was defeated six times by other poets...
...England environment, and has implied that richer and more complex surroundings and a more diversified experience of the world, would have strengthened the romancer's; genius in some of its most important elements. On the contrary, said Mr. Copeland, what could be more fortunate for a writer of romances, as distinguished from solidly founded novels of contemporary life, than a single and definite tradition, a homogeneous descent, and an imaginative sympathy with the bleak but stimulating past of his own country...