Word: writings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unquenchable Playwright Saroyan ha just written a new play, The Time of Your, Life, in six days, having meant to write it in five. Aware that many people could not make head or tail of My Heart's in the Highlands, for the new work Saroyan composed a 200-word explanatory note, to be blared through a microphone before the curtain rises...
...could be a disaster." So said J. Pierpont Morgan when, in 1924, his and his father's great Morgan Library in Manhattan was incorporated as a semi-public institution-its treasures available not to just anybody, but to a few students, to people who took the trouble to write for an admission card. Last week, for the first time, the great Morgan Library's grille-work gates were with due precaution thrown open to the public, for the duration of the New York World's Fair...
...public could even troop through Mr. Morgan's study, with its Bellini and Memling paintings on the walls, its desk ready to write a letter or sign a check at, its fire neatly laid for the next chill night. Nothing was said about coughing, but Library guards looked as if they could spot a soiled thumb a mile...
...decorous, softspoken, ineffectual existence passing futile resolutions and trying to make next year's meeting better than the last. Nations might rise or fall, populations perish, wars rage, but P. E. N. merely raised its penciled eyebrows, insisted that the writer's business is to write and that writing is a world by itself...
...Goodman claims and just about everybody else in the business admits--is the best arranger in the jazz field. His "Sometimes I'm Happy," done for Benny Goodman, is considered to be one of the five greatest arrangements ever written and Henderson himself says that he never expects to write another sax chorus such as is contained in this record. He claims that he wrote the equally famous "Stardust" arrangement for Goodman while lying flat on his back from an automobile accident and that Goodman told him to go get cracked up again, in order to get more...