Word: writing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Please write sometime. I need cheering. Tell me that normal life is still going...
...drew bugs and tigers pulling streetcars, later painted unicorns, circuses, zebras playing banjos. Since she was never exposed to lessons in anatomy, drawing or perspective, her people and animals are boneless but nonetheless seem natural. Her father's explanation: "She draws a picture of an animal like you write your name-through long, uninhibited practice...
...Beethoven-"Isn't it amazing that a deaf man could write such music...
...Editorial competition is restricted to Sophomores because it is felt that only these men who have been at Harvard over a year can successfully approach and write on subjects dealing with University, national, and international policies. All types of writing opportunities are open--Vagabonds, movie and play reviews, light or scholarly editorials, book reviews, and the like are among the variety of articles used in the second-page columns...
...many a pundit. Along about 1942, equally instructive parallels may perhaps be noted between their successors. To any such exercises, Henry F. Pringle's biography of Taft should be indispensable. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for his biography of Theodore Roosevelt, Pringle was well qualified to write about the man whom T. R. picked for President and, later, bitterly denounced. Nearly 500,000 Taft letters and papers were placed at his disposal by the Taft family. The result: a play-by-play account of an underestimated administration, a just portrait of a just...