Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began to see what the war was about . . ." He asked to be classified as eligible for the draft but was found to be 4F (perforated eardrum). He pressed for an overseas war job and got one with OWI, was sent to South China in 1945 to write leaflets and show U.S. movies. Hinton was soon convinced that he wanted to save the Chinese...
...ought to be made to Laos, too. Molotov agreed. But the Laotian delegates were already in bed; to get them up would mean more delay, and Mendès was anxious to have something signed. Well, they certainly would welcome the concession, he pointed out. "so let's write it in their agreement and tell them about it in the morning." Secretaries went to work retyping the texts...
Being a music critic and a composer at the same time is a little like playing quarterback and simultaneously having to blow the referee's whistle. But Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson has long managed to write his own music and blow the whistle on the music of others without missing a play. Whether he was reporting on the nuances in a symphony performance, "discovering" a debutante performer, delivering an essay on one of the intricacies of composition itself, or unabashedly plugging his own works, he hardly ever bored a reader. Last week, after 14 years of what he calls...
...music is the history of composition, not performance. There is great validity in the constant performance of classical music, but the real news is deviation from the routine. For instance, I might be very fond of roast beef, but as food editor, I would find it exceedingly difficult to write very many interesting articles about the taste of roast beef...
...studied and worked in Paris, New York (on a Guggenheim fellowship) and Australia. Bate, currently working on an opera, has heard little of his orchestral music performed. After hearing the Cheltenham performance he feels encouraged. "I liked hearing that one so much," he says, "I think I'll write another symphony...