Word: writing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eisenhower, are considering going into teaching, which can bring a draft deferment, to postpone their service until the war is over. A few, whose birthdays fall in the uncertain middle third, are even considering playing a numbers game with their futures. They feel that it may be advantageous to write their draft boards and ask to be reclassified 1-A. If they are, and are not called next year when there will be more draftable young men in the pool than in succeeding years, they will be draft-free even after graduation...
...brought up to date to include 60 million eligible Pakistanis 21 years old or over. On Oct. 5, in Pakistan's first nationwide elections, voters in West and East Pakistan will choose about 300 delegates to a constitutional convention. Yahya has given the delegates 120 days to write a constitution; if they do not succeed in that time, he will disband the convention and arrange for a new one to be elected. Once a constitution is approved, a government will be installed, with the convention delegates making up the National Assembly. That could come as early as 1971. Yahya...
...devotes his days to his Memoirs of Peace. Fearing pre-publication "indiscretions," De Gaulle has insisted that only his daughter in Paris be allowed to type his manuscript-perhaps understandably. Each morning the old general listens to the 8 o'clock news, says Tournoux, then sits down to write, "almost with rage...
BELIEVE IT OR NOT, people who write reviews are human beings. Like anybody else in the audience, they can come to the theatre with an upset stomach or a hangover. They can be happy or depressed or somewhere in between. And because critics actually can be any of these things, their job is a lot harder than many people think. It is not always easy for a reviewer to clear his head of pre-curtain-time emotions and look objectively at what's doing on the stage...
...details, but a strict and passionate approach to what the music was trying to convey." Susskind suggests a reason for the carelessness: "It's as though Janáček figured his stuff wasn't going to be played anyway, so he might just as well write it the way he wanted to. But truth prevails. You can't keep a work of genius down forever...