Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thinking of anything else. "I tell them it isn't so," he says. "But of course, it is." If he decides to stop, he will probably be swayed less by the risk of loss or the dwindling prospect of gain than by the time he needs to write his Ph.D. dissertation and attend to his calling...
...question is not whether Van Doren will go on gambling on TV but whether his whole career may-not be about to veer again. His celebrity has drawn a swarm of offers: to appear on TV as guest star, panelist, moderator of his own series, to edit almanacs and write magazine articles. Barry & Enright want him to join them later as a consultant, and NBC is preparing to make him an offer as a performer. Says Charlie: "Everybody in the world knows what I should do except me. Before last November, I knew I wanted to teach and to write...
Together Carl and Mark were editors of The Nation, and both married girls who could write or edit as well as cook. Irita Van Doren, Carl's first wife, has edited book reviews for the New York Herald Tribune since 1926. Novelist and Editor Dorothy Graffe Van Doren, Mark's wife, wrote and produced broadcasts for the OWI during World War II. The prodigious output of this closely knit quartet soon earned it the nickname of "the Van Doren trust...
...teaching fellow in History said that although handwriting was often bad, many students felt that it would be unfair to allow typing on exams, since good typists would be able to write more than handwriters. He added that the cost of administering two separate exam rooms, for typing and writing, might in itself make typing impractical for the University...
...have been talking about for a year. If we surrendered to this temptation, we would probably say something about the need for imagination (and realism) in foreign policy, boldness (and gradualism) in domestic policy, and House-ification (and money) in University policy. But that would be dull to write, and certainly worse than dull to read. Either you have seen it before--in which case it would be repetition--or else you haven't--and are certainly not interested now. So we resist the temptation to play the record again--and instead make a stab at cutting a slightly...