Word: writes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard AI sponsors write-in campaigns twice yearly. Last February members sent 3300 postcards calling for the release of two dissidents in Uruguay, and another major drive is scheduled for April...
...curable by pouting, is an occupational hazard, and is not the kind of thing that attracts outsiders to the seminars. As Phyllis Cartwright, director of Fort Lauderdale's Main Library, put it, "People enjoy these seminars because they can hear authors discuss their feelings, what causes them to write." Or as Novelist Anne Bernays (The Address Book), who came from Boston to speak at lunch, said, "People think if they can touch and talk to an author, they will absorb the magic, be able to do it themselves. That's why they always ask technical questions like...
...very difficult: you must sacrifice your friendships for a while," comments Jonathan S. Shapiro '84-5, who is playing Missionary Position while trying to write a thesis...
...stood in the wings of a London theater watching a performance of a quick-change, arms-flapping farce he had written for Lynn Redgrave and Richard Briers. "It was funnier from behind than in front," recalls Frayn, "and I thought, 'One day I must write a farce from behind...
When he finally got around to it, the play cost him a year of agonizing effort. "I didn't know if actors would even be able to perform it," says Frayn. "If I could have thought of a way to write a program for the second act, I would have learned to use a computer. Instead, I just had to try to remember where all nine actors and all the characters in Nothing On were at every moment. I often felt that I had come to the end of the bytes in my brain, that I had exceeded...