Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation's bestselling authors (including Somerset Maugham, Bertrand Russell and J. B. Priestley) took recourse to that most British of responses: a joint letter of protest to the editor of the London Times. "It would be disastrous to English literature," they wrote, "if authors had to write under the shadow of the Old Bailey if they failed to produce works suitable for the teen-ager...
...moment, the faculty is soled on the upperclass curriculum. It consists of beginning concentration in the Junior year. This is different from Harvard, where concentration begins a year earlier. As a junior a candidate for the A.B. degree must write at least one 7-10,000 word paper in his major. This comes in addition to a senior these is which is required from every man in order to graduate. At Princeton the faculty does not distinguish between honors and non-honors candidates...
...first time a write-in vote sent a man to the Senate--from South Carolina, where Strom Thurmond defeated the nominal Democratic candidate Brown...
...privilege of staying away from the polls. They were awakened by fanfares from Communist Youth bands, marched to the polls behind red banners, and handed ballots for the single official ticket, the Communist National Front. They could not vote no. There were no other candidates, no places for write-ins, nothing to mark. They could only drop ballots into boxes held before them. The result: a turnout of 99.3% of eligible voters, and 99.3% approval for every one of the 400 candidates. (Though the East German Parliament has unanimously approved everything put before it, new candidates had to be elected...
...Adventures of Hajji Baba (Allied Artists; 20th Century-Fox). In the old days, when a Hollywood studio wanted a famous composer to write background music for a film, it had to play an expensive game of Haydn seek; nowadays, the film colony has a sort of Bach yard full of kept musical geniuses. The current favorite is a man called Dimitri Tiomkin, who has filled in the awkward pauses of High Noon, Cyrano de Bergerac and many other recent pictures with stuff that one critic called "Kaffee-Klatchaturian...