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Word: writes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...burst from a hot core of originality. Extravert Bernstein needs the outside inspiration of a theme, a script, a plot to be at his best ? which suggests that he is at his best in the musical theater. "I am the logical man," Bernstein himself has said, "to write the great American opera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Wunderkind | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

...market in a few weeks, offer disaster coverage up to $115 million for each nuclear plant. Separate pools of 135 stock companies each will sell maximum $50 million in property damage and $50 million in public-liability coverage, while third syndicate of about 100 mutual companies will write maximum $15 million in combined property-liability policy. Liability rates will vary with plant, starting with $500 per $1,000,000 for a year's coverage for a research reactor, $1,000 per $1,000,000 for power reactor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Feb. 4, 1957 | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

Read quickly, Kathleen Raine might easily be put down as a gifted pessimist. But no pessimist could write this Message from Home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet of Life & Death | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

...earth is a temple where there is going on a mystery play, childish and poignant, ridiculous and awful enough, in all conscience ... If I have been amused or indignant, I've neither grinned nor gnashed my teeth. In other words, I've tried to write with dignity, not out of regard for myself, but for the sake of the spectacle, the play with an obscure beginning and an unfathomable dénouement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pole with British Tar | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

...sincerely believe that anyone privileged enough to write examinations under the honor system will not take advantage of that privilege. But the fact is that the privilege has been granted to the young ladies of Radcliffe, and not to Harvard men. If Radcliffe chooses to operate its boarding house on the honor system, that is not Harvard's concern. But when an academic privilege is granted to a group of students differentiated from the others only by sex (not by honor) than the chivalry of the University has perhaps been carried too far. Duane J. Murner '58 Louis J. Gonnella...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON THEIR HONOR | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

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