Word: writes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Institute on Disability, Edward Roberts, 45, who is a quadriplegic. The grants are for any use the recipient wishes. Irwin, who will make his Broadway debut next month in Dario Fo's Accidental Death of an Anarchist, plans to use part of the cash to quit teaching and write. "A few friends of mine asked if it would blunt my competitive edge as an actor," says the rubbery-faced performer. "I guess anything-too lean or too fat-can blunt...
Mario Vargas Llosa, 48, on the paradox of being a Latin American novelist: "Because you know how to read and write, you have an audience, you are respected-even by people who repress you and sometimes put you in prison or even kill you. In fact, if you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know...
...would-be colonist named Isaac Weld went to live in the New World and then returned to England complaining of Americans that "civility cannot be purchased from them on any terms; they seem to think that it is incompatible with freedom." By the time Frances Trollope came to write The Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832), she was scandalized by, among other things, "the frightful manner of feeding with their knives, till the whole blade seemed to enter the mouth, and the still more frightful manner of cleaning the teeth afterwards with a pocket knife." Charles Dickens, in his American...
Hunt, a Presbyterian, is quick to attack Helms for his positions on school prayer and abortion. "I believe in school prayer," the governor says. "But it can't be voluntary if it's authorized by public officials. I don't want Jesse Helms to write a prayer that my kids have to say in schools...
...about 6 p.m. that same day, additional reports of the nova began pouring in from Europe, and overnight over 30 telegrams arrived in his office. The barrage continued until Monday when Marsden decided to write a longer more comprehensive circular of the complete list of citings...