Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only the process of ensuring prosperity. It is learning to live with what is already here. The Depression-time rarity, the $20 bill engraved with the thin-lipped countenance of Andrew Jackson, has come to be at home in everybody's wallet. In a tangible way, while soothsayers write of a fearful and cautious population, the $20 bill has produced a new "Age of Jackson" and a new age of confidence. And the very familiarity of long green seems to have eased the pursuit of the dollar that Europeans firmly believe to be the U.S.'s chief characteristic...
...does a man write a bestselling historical novel fit for a movie version? Before a Boston TV camera last week five nimble minds tossed ideas back and forth for such a book glorifying President Chester Alan Arthur, whose plain life left plenty of room for fictional embroidery. The object: to demonstrate "brainstorming" (TIME, Feb. 18), a technique of group creativity that joins a lot of brains into assault on a single problem or concept. The brainstormers-two professors, an inventor, a hospital director and Cartoonist Al Capp-also laid down some amusing spoofs, e.g., a Chinese friend comforts Arthur...
...enemy built in. Yet he has preserved a stiff objectivity-rare among ex-leftists -which has kept him on the cold course plotted by the Fund for the Republic, which sponsored his study. The book is all the more welcome because, as Draper understates it, "Communists themselves cannot write their own history...
Invariably he is told that his intended victim has no office, and that perhaps he should write a letter to the editors. But sometimes he will not be put off, and so I have to explain that I am the very loudmouth he seeks, and that since I have no office I will try to choke down a cup of Bick's coffee with...
...almost inevitable time for him to demonstrate that he indeed still possesses such a reserve is in a love scene with the heroine, a scene showing how he wins her on the eve of her marriage. But perhaps because of its very inevitability, Mr. Alonso has refused to write such a scene, and as a result Juan just never comes to life enough to make his story appear the tragedy it is supposed to be. By sheer force of personality, the jilted bridegroom dominates the play, thus damaging both its perspective and meaning...