Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hilt modeled to represent a profile of Oedipus. In his initiation speech, Cocteau turned the flow of his conversation on the Immortals with a respect tempered only gently by the old glint of satiric impertinence. "The time is coming when one will no longer be able to read or write, when a few mandarins will whimper secrets to each other," he told the assembled academicians. "I express the wish that the academy at that time protect the persons suspected of individualism. I would like to think that our doors would open for the singular persecuted by the plural...
Antimatter is a favorite subject with science fiction writers, who like to write about inhabited planets made entirely of it. A poignant moment comes when the beautiful anti-girl explodes like an H-bomb on kissing a man from Earth. These fantasies are built on the theory that isolated parts of the universe, such as distant galaxies, may be built of antimatter...
When England's famed Composer William Walton sat down five years ago to write his first opera, he determined to make it a "singers' opera." By that he meant that he would write as melodiously as possible, use his ex-choirboy's knowledge of the voice to make things easy for the singers ("They've had a rather poor time of it for the last 30 years"). He also decided to swallow any fears he might have about sounding like Verdi or Puccini. Last week, ten months after the London première, the New York...
...last lecture of his course, sarcastically commenting: "I now turn you over to my unofficial colleagues in the Square." He was referring to the numerous tutoring schools in the University's vicinity which, during the 30's, would furnish students with outlines, resumes, and translations, give review ocssions, and write reports and theses...
...business is on sound footing-a fact foreshadowed in the 19th century by a trade practice known as "the black book," which operated to the effect that no undertaker would provide a funeral for a family that still owed another undertaker for another. Today most funeral directors have to write off less than 2% of their income to bad debts...