Word: writes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fall of 1985, an 18-member student committee first launched its campaign to de-emphasize grade competition. When the 190-member B-School faculty approved the change last spring, they added a clause requiring professors to write in-depth evaluations of a student's performance to accompany each category III or IV grade...
Fusion of seemingly antithetical forces not only is a major thematic concern for the four writers, but also is a fundamental principle of their methodology. Each of the authors is best known as a novelist but transcends the genre gap to write plays...
...subjects are the oddest achievers in the history of show business. Here is Blind Tom, born to slave parents in 1849. Sightless and retarded, this exemplary idiot savant could play most pieces on the piano, classical or popular, after a single hearing. Here is Harry Kahne, who could write five words on a blackboard simultaneously, holding chalk in his feet, hands and mouth. Here is Matthew Buchinger, who was a marksman, conjurer, artist and musician. Not exactly headline making -- except that Matthew was 29 in. high and had neither arms nor feet...
Throughout the century and a third of challenges, lately spaced three summers apart, the dandruffy commodores of the New York Yacht Club (N.Y.Y.C.) kept polishing the silverware and admiring their own mugs. "It's a boat race," Red Smith used to like to write in the New York Herald Tribune, "in the horse-racing sense of the term." Meaning the result was pretty well arranged. If the rules were not rigged, they were at least geared for the defenders, whose original 1851 victory on the schooner America was dubious too.* When an appealing gang of Australians flew the Cup away...
...demands of columning is not automatic, and Rosenthal's first columns, going out to the 300 U.S. newspapers that subscribe to the New York Times News Service, have a way to go. But ^ Rosenthal, starting out on a new career at 64, is characteristically sure that he can successfully write about foreign affairs, love "or whatever else is in my head, and I hope it's not too lonely up there...