Word: writing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...qualified as a doctor in Cambridge and soon afterwards, in 1960, wrote "Beyond the Fringe." "I was taking a three week vacation between two jobs when we got together to write the play. It was never intended to be a big thing," he said...
When Miller returns to England, he will direct Sir Lawrence Olivier in a production of "The Merchant of Venice" at the National Theatre. He plans to write a book on the rise of Victorian spiritualism, and also to diorite "The Tempest." "I don't really know why the Victorian period intrigues me. I guess it goes back to my mother-she wrote a biography of Browning. At one point, she actually got to dating cheeks 1856," he said...
SINCE I could never write poetry, poets have always been romantic heroes for me. And now more than ever. It awes me that poets can survive Watts, Vietnam, and television to write more poems. Not that history has made poetry obsolete: it has merely conspired to outlaw it and made it more elusive...
...when I looked around to see what was really there, I had to admit that airplanes were dull: businessmen stewardesses, students, all sealed in a cylinder, impatient to be rid of one another. The flights were so fast there wasn't the time to meet a girl and write down her telephone number between cities...
...confides with the sort of intensity that adds volumes to every sentence. "If you want to get anything done in Hollywood, you've got to fight. It's just one big battle out there, and I don't need that." If Redford can virtually write his own ticket now, it was a privilege won only after long wrangles with agents and legal battles over suitable roles with studios. "I work it this way," he says. "If I don't like...