Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stuffing his script into his pocket, Harry Truman added that he wanted to give the reporters a lecture on fake stories about cease-fires and armistices. He recalled that he had been marching his battery down a road in France on Oct. 27, 1918, when someone handed him a French paper with a headline announcing that an armistice had been signed. Just then a 150-mm. shell burst about 100 yards away on one side of the road, and then another on the other side. That story was put out by Roy Howard (president of Scripps-Howard newspapers), said Truman...
...History Unveiled. Then the script changed. Slansky did not disappear. He was "promoted" to Vice Premier and given control of all Czech economic affairs. He continued to get a big play in the Czech press. On his soth birthday last July 30, he got the Order of Socialism from Gottwald. Only last month the government unveiled with a flourish Slansky's two-volume history of Communism...
...production. Written by Michael Arlen, Ralph Blum, Malcolm MacDougal, and Charles Osborne, it is intelligent, fast moving, and witty without being filthy. The authors were fortunate in getting James Wood to play the lead comedy role, for Mr. Wood wrings every bit of humor out of the well stocked script...
...Boris Aronson effectively catches the mood of the play, though the lack of any partition between the street and the interior of the house is at times confusing. Director Daniel Mann does admirably with a script which calls only for various levels of emotional acting. It is unfortunate that a playwright of Tennessee Williams' stature should confine himself to one aspect of life so exclusively that he fails to achieve even a semblance of true realism...
Soon this sort of writing spread all over Western Europe, and it was not until the 12th Century that the arched and spired letters of Gothic script began to replace it. Minuscule never vanished entirely. In time, Gothic became so intricate that papal bulls were almost illegible, and each was usually sent out from the Vatican chancery accompanied by a duplicate written in another hand. The writing used for the translation was merely a variation on the Carolingian theme-the slanting chancery calligraphy of men like Ludovico degli Arrighi...