Word: writing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Where I write dramas helter skelter...
Margaret, on concert tour in Nashville, refused to believe the news. "I am absolutely positive my father wouldn't use language like that," she told reporters. "In the first place ... my father wouldn't have time to write a letter . . . Mr. Hume is a very fine critic. He has a right to write as he pleases...
Congress does not write a foreign policy. But the temper of the nation's 531 lawmakers has a persuasive effect on the Administration. A grim Congress was almost fatalistically ready last week for an international showdown...
Always articulate about himself, Wagner describes in one letter his method of composition: "Before starting to write a verse, or even to outline a scene, I must first feel intoxicated by the musical aroma of my subject, all the tones, all the characteristic motives are in my head, so that when the verses are finished and the scenes ordered, the opera proper is also finished for me and the musical treatment in detail is rather a calm and considered afterwork which the moment of real creation has preceded...
...former editors of the Nassau Lit. There, as usual, he began to drink, crowned Dean Christian Gauss with a laurel wreath and got so drunk that Cottage Club suspended him. "For seven years," wrote Fitzgerald later, "I didn't go to Princeton. Then a magazine asked me to write an article about it and when I started to write it, I found I really loved the place...