Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country is choking on generalized ignorance," he said, over the ship's loudspeakers. "We must create an elite . . . capable of forming opinion on high levels of morality . . . with 90% of the young men who seek jobs almost illiterate, not knowing even how to write a letter, after having gotten out of those peddlers' houses called high schools, who will not receive the plan . . . as a blessing...
...weeks the composers have received orders for more than 100,000 copies, and the demand shows no sign of falling off. Tunesmith Murray is frightened. He is afraid, he says, that the team will become known as the "Horrible Twins" and will never be able to write anything serious again. Worse than that, the U.S. public may "have a secret desire for really horrible music. It's getting into the psychiatric...
...officer of the Austrian army sat down one day in 1922 to write a panoramic novel about the decline & fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. At his death, 20 years later, Robert Musil had completed 2,000 pages. His work, The Man Without Qualities, was still unfinished, but he had written enough to persuade enthusiastic European critics that Musil had been at work on one of the most searching post-mortems of modern fiction. Now, something like the first fifth of his novel has been translated into English...
...this is too much praise. Musil lacks Joyce's verbal liveliness and inventiveness, Proust's sensitivity to the most subtle gradations of social rank. More important, he lacks the creative spontaneity and abundance which mark their work. Where they were artists who sometimes felt a need to write as philosophers, Musil reads like a philosopher who felt a need to write as an artist...
...almost 100 years since an English novelist named Elizabeth Gaskell found herself journeying to a sleepy parsonage in Yorkshire, where lived the Rev. Patrick Brontë, an old man, craggy and almost blind. Her mission was to write a biography of Parson Brontë's daughter Charlotte, who had died of consumption only a few months earlier, at 39, in the full flush of her fame and notoriety as the author of Jane Eyre. Mrs. Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë proved to be one of the great English biographies. Dozens more have since told the Bront...