Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whatever happens, however, Brooklyn College will take a long time to recover from the censorship of Landscapes. The usually hidden force of community opinion and purse-strings control has come into the open and students know they can write what they please only up to a nebulous point...
...acted upon, the proposal would permit a student to write a thesis approximately as long as an article in a scholarly journal instead of the much longer type of essay required at present...
These seminars, meetings of five or six students with an instructor, are held weekly, and students write papers every other week for each seminar, or one a week per student, since two seminars are taken every term of the last two years. Ordinarily one seminar falls in the student's own field, with the other in a related subject. A typical honors program might include four political science seminars, two in history, and two in economics...
...Elstner) Talbott, 68, energetic, quick-tempered, self-styled (in Who's Who) capitalist and aviation-industry executive, who resigned after 2½ years as Secretary of the Air Force in August 1955 after telling the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations that he had been "mistaken" in writing possible clients of his private firm (Paul B. Mulligan & Co. of New York) on Air Force stationery; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Palm Beach, Fla. Talbott counseled a farewell Pentagon luncheon: "Do right and don't write...
...Lorenzo da Ponte was not only a fop but a flop. As Poet to the Imperial Theaters in Vienna, it was his duty to write librettos for "great composers," but Da Ponte had muffed the job. In 1785 he decided to collaborate with "an almost unknown, second-rate composer" named Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Joseph II was shocked by such folly, but eventually, the amiable Emperor gave his approval. The new opera was Le Nozze di Figaro. So began the greatest collaboration in operatic history. To this day, says British Biographer April FitzLyon, nobody quite knows why "the facile, mediocre poet...