Word: writes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First, there was the CUE Guide controversy a year ago, when an administrator in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences thought it would be better if students weren't informed of their peers' opinions of certain professors. So he censored the write-ups of several courses, omitting student criticism of the faculty members and ignoring the pleas of the guide's student editors...
...earner to go on paying and paying for Social Security benefits that he may never see, for an astronomical defense budget, for aid to the contras and for yet another NASA shuttle? It is incredible that any tax reform would delete child-care credits, double-earner exemptions and IRA write-offs. What is miraculous is that after using half of my take-home pay for child care, my husband and I have enough to make payments on our home...
...North African campaign against Rommel's troops taught Pyle how to write about the dead. A long, impressionistic list of what war was composed of ("blown bridges and dead mules and hospital tents") ended with the words "and of graves and graves and graves...
First married at 19, Earle hitched to Nashville while his wife was away and he thought he could make his mark. He moved there in 1974 and managed to write a few songs while cadging odd jobs. He built swimming pools. He worked house construction. Once, in 1975, a dream almost came true: Elvis was going to record one of Earle's songs, but he never showed up at the studio. After cutting a few singles for Epic and an album for CBS that was shelved, Earle recalls, "I lost all my confidence. I thought I had lost my edge...
There were other bad times and two more failed marriages. One of Earle's sweetest tunes is a lullaby called Little Rock 'n' Roller, sung by a traveling musician to a faraway son. "That song was no fun to write, and it isn't any fun to sing," says Earle, who has a son of his own. "But I really needed to write it. It made me feel better...