Word: rewritten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Serenade en la (1925) is not Stravinsky at his best. It has a number of very haunting places; but there are some dull stretches that the proper self-criticism would have eliminated or rewritten. Archibald gave its four movements a clear and clean performance, with very little pedal...
Hoffmann would like to see multiple-choice tests rigorously rewritten or, better still, thrown out of the schools altogether. "Even if the tests were free from all ambiguities and errors," they would still have "serious defects when applied to those people who, despite impressive gifts, do not shine at parlor games...
Feiffer calls himself a "serious humorist," speaks of "writing" a cartoon because of the supremacy of the words over the drawing. Using pared sticks (the kind that restaurants send out to stir coffee) as pens, he usually gets his drawing right the first try. But he has rewritten captions as many as 15 times, often working on the subway while riding from his bachelor apartment in Brooklyn Heights under the East River to Manhattan...
...anti-filibuster forces win the crucial majority vote, the Senate presumably operates for a time without its old rules and under general parliamentary procedure-where debate can be ended by a simple majority. The anti-filibuster group simply submits its set of rules with Rule XXII rewritten to make cloture easier. The vote on adoption would be by simple majority...
...writes several drafts of each piece, the first couple in laborious long-hand. "When I reach the final stage, I always write on yellow paper. Then I know that I shall be unable to send it to any publisher, and it must be rewritten once more...