Word: rewritten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Franco had hoped to announce that the U.N. had lifted its diplomatic sanctions against Spain, that the West was extending a friendly hand. Twice Franco had postponed the opening, and rewritten his speech, waiting for U.N. to act. When U.N. voted to leave the anti-Franco resolution on the books (TIME, May 23), Franco's holiday wine turned to vinegar...
Harry Truman called him back. After all, the President argued, Sullivan was sore at Louis Johnson, not at Harry Truman. The resignation would be accepted, sure, but it would have to be rewritten. Sullivan agreed. In a friendly interchange of notes next day, John Sullivan and Harry Truman parted on the best of terms. But Sullivan pasted together all the angry things he had first written to the President, sent them instead to Louis Johnson...
...passion for seclusion is justified, he feels, because he works so hard. "My first phrase is always a monster .. . Everything has to be rewritten." Moreover, he says: "Write ... if you must, but for God's sake don't talk about it." For 20 years, Martin du Gard wrote and rewrote The Thibaults. Once he threw away a whole volume when he decided it would weaken the cycle. In 1940 the last volume, Epilogue was published...
Legislation against discrimination can be successful; there is no reason why a fair practices act can not work for education in Massachusetts as well as it does for business in the State. No measure will satisfy everyone involved. But a rewritten Senate 133 or a measure drawn with a more careful delegation of power, and more specific reference to the true jurisdiction of the planned committee could achieve its purpose without harm to educational institutions. Though the present New York anti discrimination law, in effect for the last six months, is the only precedent for this action, it helps show...
Buttons to Fix. By the time Garrick reached fame, the English stage was in a condition of happy disorder. Shakespeare's plays had been murderously rewritten; King Lear had a happy ending and Macbeth had been refitted with low-comedy witches. While one actor rumbled through his speeches, another might nod to his friends in the audience, fix his buttons or ostentatiously spit on the stage. Audiences were noisy and quarrelsome, and privileged dandies would stand in the wings loudly gossiping. Occasionally, a drunken beau would stray on to the stage to kiss the leading lady...