Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...actors I've known who is literate enough to write," said a pressagent last week backstage at New York's 46th Street Theater. He was talking about TIME'S Roger S. Hewlett, who wrote this week's cover story on GWEN VERDON, star of Damn Yankees...
...Whether writing of the 1490s ("It was a nervous night . . . with the dipsey lead hove every quarter-hour . . . the young and inexperienced imagining that they saw lights and heard breakers, the officers testy and irritable, and the Admiral calmly keeping vigil") or of a convoy in the 1940s ("Around the columns is thrown the screen like a loose-jointed necklace, the beads lunging to port or starboard and then snapping back . . . each destroyer nervous and questing, all eyes topside looking, ears below waterline listening, and radar antennae like cats' whiskers feeling for the enemy"), Sam Morison could write...
...live to make it a better country in peace." To Morison, history was pre-eminently "a story that moves . . . that sings to the heart while it informs the understanding." In the front of one of his books stands a quotation that he might have written himself: "Dream dreams, then write them -aye, but live them first...
...William Shakespeare write the works of William Shakespeare? Charles Dickens was positively jumpy about the problem: "The life of William Shakespeare is a fine mystery," he wrote, "and I tremble every day lest something should turn up." Among those who have gone further and insisted that William Shakespeare was a mere pen name are men as different as Mark Twain (a whole-hog Baconian), Sigmund Freud (he rooted for the Earl of Oxford), Bismarck, Walt Whitman, Oliver Wendell Holmes. In 1931, Britain's Gilbert Slater caused a flutter by declaring that Shakespeare was a seven-man syndicate consisting...
Could Shakespeare read? The ability to read, after all, is about the only equipment, apart from being able to write, an author needs. Author Hoffman skips over this question, but he agrees that the records show that Shakespeare, in 1594, was listed "as an actor in the Lord Chamberlain's Company of Players." This suggests : (though not to Author Hoffman) that Shakespeare had at least learned to read well enough to master his parts...