Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Says Thebom: "Most composers, and that includes the ones who are considered to write very well for the voice, make demands upon singers that are impossible." This time she was in on composition's ground floor. She corresponded steadily with Krenek, working over many details of vocal usage. In general, the Thebom-Krenek collaboration put lyrical passages in the low range, declamatory ones in the middle and dramatic outbursts up high. Now she thinks Medea sings as well as any concert work she knows...
Hack McGraw subscribes to his father's theory that his "editors must be part of industry before they can be part of the publishing business," would rather hire an engineer and teach him to write than try to make an engineer out of a writer...
...Lang tells his story mostly with the camera, and gives the picture a brisk pace that helps conceal its slack spots. Anne Baxter makes a thoroughly attractive murder suspect, and Richard Conte as the newsman is such a demon columnist that he apparently never even has to bother to write a column...
...Harold J. Laski, 23, sent to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, 75, one day in 1916. Laski, then an instructor in government at Harvard, assured the Great Dissenter that "you teach our generation how we may hope to live," pressed a couple of books on him, and begged permission to "write sometimes and ask you questions." In the next two decades, Briton Laski asked precious few questions of Yankee Holmes, and frequently he wrote three or four letters to Holmes's one, but the sparks flying between two well-charged minds produced what is perhaps the longest and most scintillating...
...Sweeney's third and fourth pieces. But so what?" The March Hare signed, "You're complaining because they aren't yet the Eliots they're trying to be. Give them a little time. They know the forms and the words pretty well, but they don't have much to write about. They don't know much, haven't met much. They're just marking time. Maybe they try to write about big things they don't know instead of little things that they do, but still they're trying...