Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spare time Mona collects great letters of famous writers (her favorites: Abraham Lincoln, Walter Hines Page), but is unable to keep up her own personal correspondence. Explains Mona: "I just can't bring myself to write personal letters...
...show's main problems have not, however, arisen from bad critical notices not yet, at any rate. Critics in such "try-out towns" as Philadelphia, Boston, and Detroit, the three cities where Silk Stockings has played to far, habitually write with one eye on Broadway; thus they hesitate to pan any show that seems even remotely capable of becoming a hit. Most of the pre-opening reviews of Silk Stockings, accordingly, have pointed out serious flaws in the production but refrained from condemning it as a whole. The play seems "jaded and faded and old and cold," said Cyras Durgin...
...preliminary reviews were deprecatory enough, nevertheless, to convince the producers that they had better keep Silk Stockings out-of-town until they remedied its major defects. Composer Cole Porter consequently has had to write six new songs to substitute into his score--a score which, despite a jukebox hit called "All of You," is still indisputably inferior to his previous successes. And the book, a parody on Soviet ways adapted from the famous Greta Garbo movie Ninotchka, has undergone so much scene-shuffling and rewriting at the hands of co-author Abe Burrows that at one point he eliminated...
TOUGHER CONTRACTS are in store for Navy planemakers because of troubles with planes ordered during the Korean war. The Navy canceled more than $1 billion in contracts between 1950-54 because the planes failed to live up to specifications; it now threatens to pay less for sloppy workmanship and write actual cash penalties into new contracts...
...largely of intellectuals, met with opposition from the so-called "proletariat writers," who denounced the Futurists as being "intellectual-bourgeois," and not fit for the new proletariat society. They felt that literature should be written by the class in power; since Russia was now proletarian, only the proletariats should write. Large "writing schools" were soon established to teach the workers to create poems, novels...