Word: written
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Wayland, who led the "Wailin' Eight" band in California for three years, said, "All the music I've written has never been adequately performed. Now I have great hopes that it shall...
...your issue of Oct. 6, your CINEMA man-whose writings I love and esteem-errs in a manner which is natural, yet a little irritating to me and to Mr. John Huston. The story of Beat the Devil was not lolled together in Ravello. It was written as a novel by myself, and published (same title) by Lippincott in 1951. The lolling began at a lakeside in the Wicklow Mountains-that is to say, I lolled while Mr. Huston read my book, laughing in a gratifying manner. Mr. Huston paid me to write a screenplay. With a lot of help...
...press conference tried to head off a williwaw by insisting that Glennan's move was only part of a "study" in which the President himself would make the final ruling. But Glennan, plowing on, returned to Brucker's office at week's end with a written confirmation of his decision...
...poets, and his problem is "how to select. Whom to favor? Not just somebody who says, 'You know me, Al.' " Allusive modern poetry that "doesn't come to some meaning is born dead. Nobody reads it. They write it only for each other." Good poetry is written in "fine, clear pictures." Abstract painting: "A man I know owns a painting of a head with three eyes which he considers priceless. Three eyes!" Ezra Pound's Cantos: "I don't say I'm not up to them; I say they...
...Major. A friend liked it and sold it to a publisher for $100. Wrote Banker Dawes in his diary: "I know . . . my punster friends will say that if all the notes in my bank are as bad as my musical ones, they are not worth the paper they are written...