Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mr.Beecher's article "Pakistan Palaver" in your issue of Nov. 12 has served a good purpose, in that it has brought before the Harvard community a picture of events in an important part of the world. I have felt it necessary to write you in order to clear some of the misconceptions engendered by the two letters that were published by you in your issues...
...Writing is work, at least writing for public consumption. "I write a good deal for myself. I keep a journal, which I inspect and burn every two years. Were it ever to be published, that would be a black day! What corner of the world would have me? But when I write to be read, then writing becomes work. There are all sorts of pressures, artificial standards. I imagine it must be much like the actor on the stage--the feeling of limitations, almost embarrassment...
...writes several drafts of each piece, the first couple in laborious long-hand. "When I reach the final stage, I always write on yellow paper. Then I know that I shall be unable to send it to any publisher, and it must be rewritten once more...
...which Capote was supposedly a prominent member): "Critics have to make a living." The same was true, he added, about "all this Beat Generation talk. I read Kerouac and that other fellow, that poet, and they have nothing in common. Critics just have to have something to say, to write about...
...spent a great deal of time block-lettering the title at the top of the score"), eventually won a graduate scholarship to Juilliard, studied composition with craggy Modernist Roger Sessions. He arrived on Broadway "purely by fluke" when he persuaded Melvyn Douglas to let him write new incidental music for a Broadway production of Sean O'Casey's Within the Gates. That was in 1934, and since then Composer-Conductor Engel has had a hand in such diverse Broadway shows as Maurice Evans' Hamlet, The Trojan Women, A Streetcar Named Desire (for which he wrote incidental music...