Word: written
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rains measure was $500 million over the Administration's own bill. $800 million more than the amount called for in a substitute bill written by Florida's Democratic Representative A. Sydney Herlong and backed by Republican and conservative Southern Democratic Congressmen...
...California, Author and Illustrator Garth Williams mused on the nonsense of it all. Said he: "The Rabbits' Wedding has no political significance. I was completely unaware that animals with white fur were considered blood relations of white human beings. It was written for children from two to five who will understand it perfectly. It was not written for adults, who will not understand it because it is only about a soft furry love and has no hidden messages of hate...
Though prestigious organizations of law-abiding citizens-notably the New York Academy of Medicine-have urged adoption of the British system, Judge Murtagh has no hope that anything so revolutionary would be accepted in the U.S. In Who Live in Shadow, written with Sara Harris and published this week (McGraw-Hill; $4.50), Murtagh offers a compromise prescription: ¶ Set up facilities under federal auspices for treating narcotics addicts in all major cities...
Last week both sides had had enough, hammered out mutually acceptable terms: a written guarantee of pension benefits, increased job security, a 3.3% wage increase. St. Louis guild leaders, passing the terms along to international headquarters for formal endorsement, hailed them as the fruits of victory...
Whatever else can be said for or against Dublin-born Samuel (Waiting for Godot) Beckett, he deserves full marks for consistency. Having decided that life is a hapless, hopeless thing, he goes right on repeating his message. His latest novel to be published in the U.S. (it was written in 1953) does not back off an inch from the chasm. Watt is a worthy literary companion to such other Beckett anti-heroes as Murphy, Malone and Mahood. Like them, he does not have a chance, and does not really want...