Word: laboredness
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As one who has labored many a day in the hot sun for $2 an hour (and glad to get it), this account of Mr. Dowd's success is just great. May his tribe increase.
Part of the problem was fiscal. After 1967, though he labored at his desk every day, Stravinsky neither conducted nor produced any finished compositions. It became necessary to maintain the pretense of a productive Stravinsky, or as Libman puts it, "to create a 'living' man from a dying...
The protagonist, a young teacher named Phil Hatcher, is a compulsive player of horses, poker, craps - any ritual of chance on which he can stake his life or his rent money. His marriage goes, his career more or less disintegrates, but the "action" remains. Gambling - worked at, lovingly labored over...
When English Composer Peter Maxwell Davies, 37, was a student at Manchester University, he was thrown out of composition class. "They thought I was no good," he recalls. When he persisted in the new-music salons of London, audiences came to the same conclusion: they shouted "Rubbish!" at the premi...
On Tuesday and Wednesday, his nomination assured, McGovern labored over his acceptance speech. He had no shortage of suggestions. Old Kennedy Aides Adam Walinsky, Arthur Schlesinger and Richard Goodwin contributed ideas in lofty, cadenced prose. Campaign Speechwriter Robert Shrum submitted drafts; McGovern rejected all but a few ideas and an...