But a writer who has a taste for irony and who sees incest in all its modern dimensions can let his imagination work on the disturbing joke in the incest myth, the joke that strikes right at the center of man's humanness.

The letter writer who suggested saving money by taking kids out of school at 14 should have signed his letter `` simpleton '' instead of `` simplicitude ''.

In fact, they went so far as to caution the writer that if he attempted to design a section exclusively for married students there should be, at the beginning, some `` hindsight '' study ; ;

We stood under a gigantic tree in the rolling country just outside of Moscow looking at silent flowers on the grave of a Russian poet and writer who cherished the love for his country to the point of foregoing the highest international honor.

The point is that in a system such as Fromm's which recognizes unconscious motivations, and which rests on certain ethical absolutes, empirical data can be used to support whatever proposition the writer is urging at the moment.

One is not sure who emerges as the main personality of this book -- Mijbil, with his rollicking ways, or Maxwell himself, poet, portrait painter, writer, journalist, traveller and zoologist, sensitive but never sentimental recorder of an unusual way of life, in a language at once lyrical and forceful, vivid and unabashed.

`` A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment '', he says.

In 1941, van Vogt decided to become a full-time writer, quitting his job at the Canadian Department of National Defence.

In particular for the writer, their authorship in their work makes their work part of their identity, and there is much at stake personally over the negotiation of authority over that identity.

In May 1979, while at the album release party for her second album, My Father's Eyes, Grant met Gary Chapman, writer of the title track ( and future husband ).

Additionally, Elihu's first spoken words are a confession of his youthful status, being much younger than the three canonical friends, including a claim to be speaking because he cannot bear to remain silent ; it has been suggested that this interesting statement may have been symbolic of a " younger " ( that is to say, later and interpolating ) writer, who has written Elihu's sermon to respond to what he views as morally and theologically scandalous statements being made within the book of Job, and creating the literary device of Elihu to provide what seemed to be a faith-based response to further refute heresy and provide a counter-argument, a need partially provided by God's ambiguous and unspecific response to Job at the end of the book.

In his 2001 book, writer Robert Holden identified at least nine regional variations for the creature known as the bunyip across Aboriginal Australia.

He began his professional career at the age of six, and has worked on over 400 television episodes, 18 motion pictures, various commercials, and scores of voice over work, as well as working as a musician, songwriter, recording artist and writer.

After serving as visiting professor at Harvard University in 1958, and the University of Illinois and the University of California, Berkeley in 1959 – 60, he resigned his post in Singapore at the University of Malaya to become an independent writer and celebrity.

The concept can be traced to at least the Dadaists of the 1920s, but was popularized in the late 1950s and early 1960s by writer William S. Burroughs, and has since been used in a wide variety of contexts.

According to one nineteenth-century writer, at a time when it was hard for unknown painters to come to the attention of the Royal Academy, he first found notice by displaying a painting at the " small Corpus Christi " ( held eight days after the regular one ) on the Place Dauphine ( by the Pont Neuf ).

: Aelianus Tacticus, Greek military writer of the 2nd century, resident at Rome, is sometimes confused with Claudius Aelianus.

A New York writer sent to Tulsa, Oklahoma in late 1940 / early 1941 noted an "... Oklahoma version of shag done to the Western Swing music of Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys at the Cain's Dancing Academy in Tulsa.

Pizan did not assert her intellectual abilities, or establish her authority as a writer until she was widowed at the age of 24.

Ampelographers find clues about which grape varieties were popular at the time in the writings of Italian writer Cosimo Villifranchi who noted that Canaiolo was widely planted variety in the area along with Sangiovese, Mammolo and Marzemino.

Various conventions of the detective genre were standardized during the Golden Age, and in 1929 some of them were codified by writer Ronald Knox in his ' Decalogue ' of rules for detective fiction, among them to avoid supernatural elements, all of which were meant to guarantee that, in Knox's words, a detective story " must have as its main interest the unravelling of a mystery ; a mystery whose elements are clearly presented to the reader at an early stage in the proceedings, and whose nature is such as to arouse curiosity, a curiosity which is gratified at the end.

From Suetonius, we know that she at least accompanied the Emperor to the amphitheatre, while the Jewish writer Josephus speaks of benefits he received from her.

In the summer of 1953, BBC staff writer Nigel Kneale created The Quatermass Experiment, the first of several Quatermass serials.

The idea for the police-box disguise came from BBC staff writer Anthony Coburn, who rewrote the program's first episode from a draft by C. E. Webber.

He co-wrote Beyond Our Ken for two seasons ( 1958 – 1959 ) with Eric Merriman for BBC Radio before leaving after a disagreement with his fellow writer.

Notably, Barry Took was the principal writer in the 1969 season ; executive producer George Schlatter, a Canadian, was influenced by Round the Horne on CBC repeats of BBC original programming, and searched out Took for his programme.

BBC Radio 4 had commissioned a third Dirk Gently six-part radio series for broadcast in mid-2010, based on the uncompleted chapters of The Salmon of Doubt, and written by Spice World writer Kim Fuller.

In 2001, writer Lance Dann adapted the series into two hour-long episodes for the BBC World Service.

In December 2009, the BBC broadcast a new version of the story, written by " ER " and " Law & Order " writer Patrick Harbinson.

This was followed up by The Syndeton Experiment, which featured the same cast, producer and writer and was broadcast as The Saturday Play on 10 April 1999 by BBC Radio 4.

In 2010, writer and actor Mark Gatiss interviewed Sara Karloff about her father's career for his BBC documentary series A History of Horror.

Spike Milligan, writer of The Goon Show, remarked that a lot of blue innuendo came from serviceman's jokes, which most of the cast understood ( they all had been soldiers ) and many of the audience understood, but which passed over the heads of most of the BBC producers and directors, most of whom were " Officer class.

At the turn of the decade Eric Sykes and his old friend and colleague Hattie Jacques co-starred in a new 30-minute BBC TV sitcom, Sykes and A ..., which Sykes created in collaboration with writer Johnny Speight, who had worked with him earlier in the 1950s on the two Tony Hancock series for ITV.

* Ronan Bennett ( author ) writer of BBC Drama's Hidden and C4's Top Boy, originally from Ireland, now lives in Stoke Newington.

More recently, he has become an sitcom writer, most notably with BBC Radio 4's After Henry and No Commitments and Smelling of Roses.

His nephew, Jonathan Lynn, is a filmmaker and script writer known for satirical BBC shows Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister.

His first television success was as one of Michael Bentine's sidekicks in the inventive and surreal BBC show It's a Square World ( 1960 ), but Guyler gained greater recognition on the small screen in his association with comedian and writer Eric Sykes.

Fred Lawless, Liverpool born theatre playwright has a house in Todmorden ; he was also a writer for the BBC 1 TV series EastEnders, as well as several other TV and radio programmes.

As a 10-year-old child she starred as Spoonface Steinberg in the BBC production by that name written by writer Lee Hall, famous for writing Billy Elliot.

In 2010, he appears alongside John Simm and Jim Broadbent in BBC series Exile, penned by the BAFTA winning writer Danny Brocklehurst.

In 1969, he achieved an international popular presence as the writer, producer, and presenter of the BBC Television series, Civilisation.

He became a writer, contributing to the satirical television comedy programme on BBC Television, That Was The Week That Was in 1962 and 1963, along with many other names, where he was most remembered for the " Silent men of Westminster " sketch.

In 2010, writer and actor Mark Gatiss interviewed Warner about his role in The Omen ( 1976 ) for his BBC documentary series A History of Horror.

Lady Chatterley's Lover has been adapted for BBC Radio 4 by acclaimed writer Michelene Wandor and was first broadcast in September 2006.

Braben also made Wise a would-be writer ; their BBC shows in the 1970s would always climax with an extended sketch, introduced by Wise as " a play what I wrote.

Charles Chilton MBE ( born 1917 ) is a BBC radio presenter, a writer and a producer.