Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whether you want to satisfy curiosity or relieve boredom, interview Krishna-Menon or browbeat college politicos, write news or full pages features, the opportunity is available on the news board...
Jacques Offenbach, they said in Paris, certainly can cancan. But could he write serious music? He died trying to finish his one attempt, an opera with a libretto based on stories by Germany's weird. Poe-etic story spinner, E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822). The Tales of Hoffmann, first produced in 1881, four months after Offenbach's death, was a smash. The French, who wisely distrust overly sweet wines, have always had a weakness for sweet opera, and much of Hoffmann fits into the sucre fashion of Gounod's Faust, Saint-Saens' Samson et Dalila, etc. When...
...dogged scholar, he worked all hours of the night ("What people who need more sleep than I do call insomnia was a help"), and even when sick ("I find that what I write while the annual virus is working in me is as good, or as bad, and as plentiful as what I write when I can breathe through my nose"). He spent his vacations inspecting battle sites and tracing the country's great expeditions. Eventually he came to know as much about the opening of the American West as any man alive. His The Year of Decision...
Drouet's tales about Minou had failed to check with neighbors, teachers and the parish priest, and how she kept prompting the moppet in the interview. As for Minou, reported Elle, "She does not know the meaning of words used in her poems. Did she write them? If not, did her mother? And if her mother did, did she do it to sublimate her ambition and frustration, for love of glory or love of money...
Died. Marquis James, 64, two-time Pulitzer Prizewinner* for history (The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston, Andrew Jackson; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Rye, N.Y. Of historical writing, he said: "Many good writers . . . are lazy and shallow about their research . . . most of the . . . competent researchists can't write for sour apples...