Word: writing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...content to have captured the bulk of the pop record market with their singing, the industry's goslings have lately turned to the menacing practice of writing and warbling their own tunes. Paul Anka, 17, a Canadian boy with a voice like a grouse's cry and a compositional style to match, wrote and recorded (for ABC-Paramount) an amatory yawp of pain entitled So It's Goodbye, saw it become a favorite of the jukebox set. A carrot-haired New Jersey girl named Beverly Ross, 22, deserted the chicken farm where she grew up, traveled...
...Happy for Me." Bill wrote in English to the Japanese admirals, addressed his letters merely to "Imperial Naval Headquarters, Tokyo, Japan." But last week as he prepared to write his paper, Bill had a prize to include...
Throughout the country "Warren House" has become synonymous with the department itself. Those who "write to Warren House" do so sometimes to ask for faculty appointments or for special reading lists, but also for purposes of a less professional nature. There have been questions about cross-word puzzles, or about how to win at scrabble. A Novia Scotia farmer once sent his poems to be "criticized." The piece-de-resistance is probably a letter from a high school teacher asking for a list of the "twenty best books, with reasons...
Both Farquhar and Lowe show they write because they have nothing better to do--it's not idle. Farquhar's "The Stage of the Year" stumbles over words sometimes, but his dialogue is terse, his frenzied story about the purposeless destruction of a dog very real. Lowe's strength depends more on what he knows about people and customs in Jamaica, whom and which he treats softly and without awe in a swift telling. Heliczer's piece proves that irreverence and irrelevance sometime mean the same thing, and is in his usual adroit good humor...
...close examination will not bear out the belief that professors here must write a great number of books before they gain tenure, Pusey said. Men are often promoted on the basis of skill in teaching rather than amount of publication, he added...