Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...through long scenes already marked for destruction. As a production is laboriously dragged from town to town (before Camelot reaches New York, its railway fares and freight charges alone will reach $35,000), a playwright sometimes tosses everything but his last will and testament into the first draft to see what will go. A merchandising mentality ("Give them what they want") can sacrifice a song, a scene or a whole play to the whim of a weary tryout audience. But in experienced, honest hands, the road ordeal can also lead to the kind of relentless self-criticism in which Lerner...
...next few weeks, after a well-earned rest, Kennedy must weigh seriously the course his Administration will take in putting into effect the promises of the Democratic platform. He must draft an inaugural address, designed not to away an electorate, but to awaken the American people to the dangers, sacrifices and responsibilities that the next decade will present...
...drawer of Information Minister Louis Terrenoire lies the draft of a bill giving the government a total veto over the editorial columns of the French press. Private protests to De Gaulle (as well, perhaps, as De Gaulle's own sense of a free press's rights) have so far prevented the bill's being offered to the Assembly. But last week, as critics of De Gaulle and the Algerian war grew more vociferous, the drawer was half open...
...Governor criticized more than Meyer's attitude on the draft; he went on to condemn what he called "Meyer's rote to abolish the Defense Department," and his votes against the Mutual Security Program which, he emphasized, "gives us to impoverished places." Here, gain Stafford misrepresents Meyer's record...
...appeal to different voter groups. "Whenever I start talking about Bill Meyer," he observed, "I get into fights, sometimes even first fights. I wish he'd made more of an effort to get the veteran's vote--Armistice Day is too late--by toning down his ideas on the draft...