When Fred Powell's brother-in-law, Charlie Keane, moved into the dead man's home, the anonymous letter writer took no chances on Charlie taking up where Fred had left off and wasted no time on a first notice:

As a writer on the theater, I have paid close attention to the plays.

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.

Some, she knew, looked upon Thompson almost as a saint, but others read in `` The Hound Of Heaven '' what they took to be the confessions of a great sinner, who, like Oscar Wilde, had -- as one pious writer later put it -- thrown himself `` on the swelling wave of every passion ''.

We therefore leave the writer to the enjoyment of the unenvied reputation which the personal abuse he has heaped on us will entitle him to from the low and vulgar herd to which he belongs ''.

The writer, being cognizant through his interviews of the reactions of previous married students, did insist on there being included some `` hindsight '' material.

Since her bereavement this individual has reported to the writer on numerous occasions about how helpful the class discussions were to her in this adjustment crisis.

Now, with virtually every writer, not only was the European origin of public law acknowledged as a historical phenomenon, but the rules thus established by the advanced civilizations of Europe were to be imposed on others.

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.

Dwan also helped launch the career of two other very successful Hollywood directors, Victor Fleming, who went on to direct The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind, and Marshall Neilan, who became an actor, director, writer and producer.

In a metafictional touch, the husband is a writer working on a manuscript called " A Clockwork Orange ," and Alex contemptuously reads out a paragraph that states the novel's main theme before shredding the manuscript.

Harlan Ellison ( who began reading van Vogt as a teenager ) wrote, " Van was the first writer to shine light on the restricted ways in which I had been taught to view the universe and the human condition.

In this, the emperor was assisted by five chief lawyers: L. Fulvius Aburnius Valens, an author of legal treatises ; L. Volusius Maecianus, chosen to conduct the legal studies of Marcus Aurelius, and author of a large work on Fidei Commissa ( Testamentary Trusts ); L. Ulpius Marcellus, a prolific writer ; and two others.

However, its intermediate result storage mechanism, a paper card writer / reader, was unreliable, and when inventor John Vincent Atanasoff left Iowa State College for World War II assignments, work on the machine was discontinued.

Although Dio is the earliest writer to mention them, Ammianus Marcellinus used the name to refer to Germans on the Limes Germanicus in the time of Trajan's governorship of the province shortly after it was formed, circa 98 / 99.

For example, Alfonso halted his army in pious respect before the birthplace of a Latin writer, carried Livy or Caesar on his campaigns with him, and his panegyrist Panormita even stated that the king was cured of an illness when a few pages of Quintus Curtius Rufus ' history of Alexander the Great were read to him.

Ambrosiaster is the name given to the writer of a commentary on St Paul's epistles, " brief in words but weighty in matter ," and valuable for the criticism of the Latin text of the New Testament.

Germain Morin broke new ground by suggesting in 1899 that the writer was Isaac, a converted Jew and writer of a tract on the Trinity and Incarnation, who was exiled to Spain in 378-380 and then relapsed to Judaism ; but he afterwards abandoned this theory of the authorship in favour of Decimus Hilarianus Hilarius, proconsul of Africa in 377.

Alfred Jarry ( 8 September 1873 – 1 November 1907 ) was a French writer born in Laval, Mayenne, France, not far from the border of Brittany ; he was of Breton descent on his mother's side.

* 1735 – Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he had published was true.

* Amy Sherman-Palladino, creator and former executive producer and writer on the television show Gilmore Girls

The early Christian apologist writer Arnobius also believed Atlantis once existed but blamed its destruction on pagans.

In Star Trek: Voyager the holodeck was used extensively because ( 1 ) a crew isolated from their homes required more frequent diversion, ( 2 ) the holographic Doctor could, in the early seasons, be located only in the Sick Bay or one of the holodecks, ( 3 ) one of the main characters, Tom Paris, was by nature and calling a writer ( holonovelist ) -- he only joined Star Fleet because his father, Admiral Paris, forced him to.

The writer, Jimmy Diggs, decided to honor the child's memory by naming Nancy's Voyager persona after the little girl.

It first aired in the NBC Saturday morning lineup on October 27, 1973, and was written by American television writer Larry Brody who would go on to write the Star Trek: Voyager episode " Tattoo ".

Linda Salzman Sagan ( born July 16, 1940 ) is an artist and writer, famed for creating the artwork for the plaque on the Pioneer spacecraft and for coproducing the Voyager Golden Record.

* James Kahn ( class of 1965 ) is a physician, author and screen writer whose works include an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, 4 episodes of Star Trek: Voyager, and 21 episodes of Melrose Place.

Although uncredited, Swallow is the only British writer to have worked on a Star Trek television series, having created the original stories for " One " and " Memorial ", two episodes of the series Star Trek Voyager.

According to writer Nick Sagan, the original concept for " In The Flesh " had the Voyager crew discovering a picture of Species 8472 in an ancient Earth culture, leading them to discover that some human legends of demons and devils grew out of early contact with Species 8472.

A 1997 " Star Trek: Voyager " episode, " Before and After ", which writer Kenneth Biller claimed was based on a Martin Amis novel " Time's Arrow ", also features a character experiencing the events in reverse along with the audience.

They are experienced industry practitioners, who have usually worked previously for a number of years in any one of a variety of roles, such as producer, writer, director or script editor.

Financial writer Sebastian Mallaby has said that hedge funds tend to be " small enough to fail ", since most are relatively small in terms of the assets they manage, and they usually operate with low leverage, thereby limiting the potential harm to the economic system should one of them fail.

John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris ( 10 July 1903 – 11 March 1969 ) was an English science fiction writer who usually used the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes.

Commented Michael Steele to a Nine-O-One Network Magazine writer: " When I go out now it is usually girls who recognize me.

Today the composer ( past or present ) of the musical score to an opera or operetta is usually given top billing for the completed work, and the writer of the lyrics relegated to second place or a mere footnote, a notable exception being Gertrude Stein, who received top billing for Four Saints in Three Acts.

It is awarded each year to the writer of a screenplay adapted from another source ( usually a novel, play, short story, or TV show but also sometimes another film ).

As Maugham is not usually rated as a writer of crime novels, Up at the Villa is hardly ever considered to be a crime novel and accordingly can be found in bookshops among his other, " mainstream " novels.

Orwell usually refers to the writer George Orwell, to the derived phrase Orwellian, or to awards named for George Orwell:

Byron usually refers to the British poet and writer George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron ( 1788 – 1824 ), commonly known as Lord Byron.

Stax writer / producer Isaac Hayes usually stepped in on the occasions when Jones was unavailable for session work, and on several sessions Jones and Hayes played together with one on organ, the other on piano.

Although he declined to become an American citizen and resided in fascist Italy for decades, Santayana is usually considered an American writer by Americans.

John Taylor ( December 19, 1753August 21, 1824 ) usually called John Taylor of Caroline was a politician and writer.

Most of them were written in Latin, although one discovered was in Brythonic and usually laid curses upon those whom the writer felt had done them wrong.

Although usually described as a song cycle rather than a concept album, the songs do, when considered in their totality, seem to link together as one long song, forming an " intangible narrative of unreachable worlds " and delivered with what one writer calls " a masterpiece of virtuoso singing ".

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, KCVO, DL ( 10 January 1834 – 19 June 1902 ), known as Sir John Dalberg-Acton, 8th Bt from 1837 to 1869 and usually referred to simply as Lord Acton, was an English Catholic historian, politician, and writer.

William Thomas Beckford ( 1 October 1760 – 2 May 1844 ), usually known as William Beckford, was an English novelist, a profligate and consummately knowledgeable art collector and patron of works of decorative art, a critic, travel writer and sometime politician, reputed at one stage in his life to be the richest commoner in England.

Philippe de Mornay ( 5 November 1549 – 11 November 1623 ), seigneur du Plessis Marly, usually known as Du-Plessis-Mornay or Mornay Du Plessis, was a French Protestant writer and member of the Monarchomaques (" killer of kings ").

The Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour ( usually the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, or just the Stephen Leacock Award ) is an annual literary award presented to the best work of humorous literature in English by a Canadian writer.

A science fiction writer must invent the world where the story takes place, often from the ground up, a process usually called world-building.

Edmund Crispin was the pseudonym of Robert Bruce Montgomery ( usually credited as Bruce Montgomery ) ( 2 October 1921 – 15 September 1978 ), an English crime writer and composer.

Optical drive is the generic name ; drives are usually described as " CD " " DVD ", or " Blu-ray ", followed by " drive ", " writer ", etc.

* Charles Jonathan Driver, principal between 1983 – 1989, was a well-known South African writer and poet ( usually published as CJ Driver ), who had gone into exile due to his opposition to Apartheid.

Despite this, he is usually claimed to be an Irish writer.

A technical writer is not usually a subject matter expert ( SME ), but possesses and applies expertise to interview SMEs and conduct research necessary to produce accurate, comprehensive documents.

Like the term " sci-fi " itself, " skiffy " may be used in a pejorative sense, but is more usually used to indicate that the writer or speaker is aware of the controversy about terminology, but chooses not to take it seriously.