Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Levine then told her students it was not enough to read and be aware; they should also participate-write letters to TIME'S editors, to their Congressmen, to news commentators. One boy objected: "No one will listen to us kids." Replied Mrs. Levine, "Try it and see." In fact, see LETTERS...
Whiskyfied Scholars. Two years later Smellie had written, or pasted together from such sources as Hume, Locke, Voltaire and Francis Bacon, the remaining two volumes. The 2,659-page set contained a long description of Noah's ark and a terse write-off of "Woman": "The female of man. See HOMO." It advised that tobacco could desiccate the brain to "a little black lump consisting of mere membranes." It was salted with 160 excellent engravings by Bell, including a handsome map of North America...
...with succeeding editions, and the editors easily enlisted the world's famous men as writers. Sir Walter Scott wrote on drama. Harvard President Edward Everett, the first American contributor, wrote a biography of Washington. Lord Rayleigh, the physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1904, was commissioned to write on "Light." He missed his deadline, but the encyclopedia was being published volume by volume in alphabetical order, and his piece was rescheduled under "Optics"-and again as "Undulating Theory of Light." It finally got in under "Wave Theory of Light...
...different." Last week, on Dinah Shore's Chevy Show, Elaine and Mike supplied a sample: a long-distance phone conversation between a self-pitying neurotic mother and her feverishly busy scientist son who is too busy trying to launch a balky U.S. satellite to call or write. (Mike: I feel awful. Elaine: Honey, if I could believe that I'd be the happiest mother in the world...
...John Kenneth Galbraith, 49. is an economist who has always found a wider audience than his less articulate colleagues. His American Capitalism: the Concept of Countervailing Power was a bestseller in 1952; some of its ideas went into the 1956 campaign speeches of Adlai Stevenson, which Galbraith helped write. This week, in The Affluent Society (Houghton Mifflin; $4), Galbraith published what he obviously intended to be a searching inquiry into the U.S. economy. Instead, it is a well-written but vague essay with the air of worried dinner-table conversation...