In the course of requesting a veritable library of reading matter from home, Seymour predicts his brother's success as a writer as well as his own death and condemns the ironic " twist " endings in the stories of Anatole France, twist endings being an early Salinger device.

For all his success, Rockne also made what an Associated Press writer called " one of the greatest coaching blunders in history.

Though Englehart and Starlin soon left as the creative talent for the title, its success grew once writer Doug Moench and artist Paul Gulacy, began collaborating in issues # 22.

From the age of nine he dreamed of becoming a writer of adventure fiction but did not have real success until he was twenty-three.

The film was a not a commercial success and Ingram left the film business, returning to Los Angeles to work as a sculptor and writer.

His first success in radio was as writer for comedian Derek Roy's show.

While some critics dismissed Romero's film because of the graphic scenes, writer R. H. W. Dillard claimed that the " open-eyed detailing " of taboo heightened the film's success.

Altman's immediate success encouraged him to move to New York City, where he attempted to forge a career as a writer.

Having enjoyed little success, in 1949 he returned to Kansas City, where he accepted a job as a director and writer of industrial films for the Calvin Company.

His success as a short story writer was intermittent between periods of terrible poverty and depression.

Wilson also compares Fort to Robert Ripley, a contemporary writer who found major success hunting oddities, and speculates that Fort's idiosyncratic prose might have kept him from greater popular success.

Following the success of his first novels, Deighton became The Observers cookery writer and produced illustrated cookbooks.

After working at a number of jobs and writing part-time, he became a writer full-time during 1956, encouraged by the success of the CBC television drama, Flight into Danger ( in print as Runway Zero Eight ).

" Following its release in 1960, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen proved to be a " resounding success ... both critically and commercially ", later being described as " a tour de force of the imagination, a novel that showed almost every writer who came afterwards what it was possible to achieve in novels ostensibly published for children.

In France and later in America, Rank enjoyed great success as a therapist and writer from 1926 to 1939.

In partnership with another struggling writer, Sam Harris, he finally interests a producer and they are on the road to success.

After the success of Monsoon Wedding, Nair collaborated with writer Julian Fellowes on her 2004 adaptation of Thackeray's novel Vanity Fair, starring Reese Witherspoon.

An extraordinarily productive writer, in addition to his voluminous works of fiction he published articles and books of travel, biography, autobiography, and criticism, and wrote plays, some of which were performed during his lifetime with moderate success.

Despite her success as a writer, Duras's adult life was also marked by personal challenges, including a recurring struggle with alcoholism.

Gorky's first book Очерки и рассказы ( Essays and Stories ) in 1898 enjoyed a sensational success and his career as a writer began.

" The writer John Wain thought the book " not a success in novelistic terms ", but saw, " vitality in its hinterland.

Its success enabled Lord to leave the world of advertising and become a full-time writer.

A staff writer contract with a publisher is a natural first step for any professional songwriting career, with some writers outgrowing the set-up once they achieve a degree of success and a desire for greater independence.

Songwriter Allan Eshuijs described his staff writer contract at Universal Music Publishing as a " starter deal ", the success from which eventually allowed him to found his own publishing company so that he could " keep as much as possible and say how it ’ s going to be done.

That after all his years of effort to become a composer, he should now, now when he was still stoutly replying to the critics of his Discourse on the Arts and Sciences, be so close to a success in music and have to reject it.

She was resentful of his easy success as compared with Shelley's failure.

it was always the same unqualified success now.

At the recent horse show convention in New York it was stated that this Intermediate Judging Class is meeting with great success and will be a great help to future judges in the horse world.

So young Prokofieff was the darling of success: in his motherland ; ;

We may say that his attitude was foolish, since he may have been a success had he learned some human relations skills ; ;

At any rate, the substance of Eichmann's testimony was that all his actions flowed from his membership in the party and the SS, and though the Prosecutor did his utmost to prove actual personal hatred of Jews, his success on this score was doubtful and the anti-Semitic lesson weakened to that extent.

Though the slightest yank was frequently capable of producin' results, many men assured success through a turn of the tail 'bout the saddle horn, supplemented sometimes, in the case of cattle, by a downward heave of the rider's leg upon the strainin' tail.

From the start, it was clear that bipartisan support would be essential to success in the war effort, and any manner of compromise alienated factions on both sides of the aisle, such as the appointment of Republicans and Democrats to command positions in the Union Army.

Gelignite was more stable, transportable and conveniently formed to fit into bored holes, like those used in drilling and mining, than the previously used compounds and was adopted as the standard technology for mining in the Age of Engineering bringing Nobel a great amount of financial success, though at a significant cost to his health.

The success of his children's books was to become a source of considerable annoyance to Milne, whose self-avowed aim was to write whatever he pleased and who had, until then, found a ready audience for each change of direction: he had freed pre-war Punch from its ponderous facetiousness ; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright ( like his idol J. M. Barrie ) on both sides of the Atlantic ; he had produced a witty piece of detective writing in The Red House Mystery ( although this was severely criticised by Raymond Chandler for the implausibility of its plot ).

Twice I have been struck down with illness just as I was on the point of success.

It was not until the last session of what was the 7th Test ( one match having been abandoned without a ball bowled ) that England's success was secured.

Lawry was sacked after the Sixth Test after the selectors finally lost patience with Australia's lack of success and dour strategy.

Ulfilas ' initial success in converting this Germanic people to an Arian form of Christianity was strengthened by later events.

Their first album, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, including major contributions by all members of Pilot and Ambrosia, was a success, reaching the Top 40 in the US Billboard 200 chart.

After some initial success in his efforts to take possession, Albert was driven from Saxony, and also from his Northern march by Henry, and compelled to take refuge in south Germany.

Reinforced by Phocian and Orchomenian troops and a Spartan army, he met the confederate forces at Coronea in Boeotia, and in a hotly contested battle was technically victorious, but the success was a barren one and he had to retire by way of Delphi to the Peloponnese.