Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...copy. He was finally introduced to "Mr. Edwards, the representative from Moscow," who explained that the new version was necessary to assure readers that Glaser did not bear the taint of a capitalist paper and was really "tried and true." Glaser never gave in to the pressure to write such a series, but he saw a lot more of Mr. Edwards...
...Manuel into operation, the Government gave Magma a strong helping hand: a $94 million loan from the RFC, fast tax write-offs on plant and railroad, and a price prop at 24? a Ib. With copper now selling at 43? a Ib., Magma's rough-and-ready President Wesley P. Goss had plenty of reason to fire up San Manuel ahead of schedule. Says he: "When you have more than $100 million tied up, you are interested in getting into production as quickly as possible and getting some of those dollars back...
...wonder, with such a large and subtle character to draw, that the studio hired a gifted novelist, Christopher Isherwood, to write the script for this picture. No wonder that expense was damned in the effort to make settings splendid and costumes rich, and all authentic to the period in the least detail. By all that literary art and cinematic craft could do, the way was prepared for the heroine of history, and suddenly, in a sputter of high heels and a clatter of false eyelashes, she arrives on the scene-the most cultivated woman of the French Renaissance: Lana Turner...
...amid the massacres of 1889, Freedom or Death is a historical novel, but scarcely of the sort U.S. readers usually encounter. The first law of popular American historicals is that history is made in bed. Kazantzakis prefers to write the kind of history that is made among God, man and the devil...
...write to you not as a middle-aged housewife, suspicious of her own husband's nocturnal wanderings or anticipatory of "The Seven-Year Itch," but as a nineteen-year-old college student, single and realistic. I have always considered myself nowise naive of the ways of the world, yet cannot help feeling distressed at this off-hand nourishment given to seeds of infidelity which might otherwise remain dormant. It is all too easy to slip into a pattern of behaviour which, though inherently wrong, has been condoned by "THE modern thinkers." Whether or not the statistics are true...