The Pleasure of Writing
Sometimes when the printer is waiting for an article
which really should have been sent to him the day
before, I sit at my desk and wonder if there is any
possible subject in t...
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A.A. Milne (1882-1956) worked as an essayist, a playwright, a poet, and an adult novelist, in addition to his important contribution as an author of juvenile books. Although he attempted to excel in a...
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Alan Alexander Milne was born in London. Youngest son of schoolmaster John Vine Milne, he attended Westminster School and later Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was graduated in 1903 with honors i...
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In his autobiography, It's Too Late Now (1939), A. A. Milne complains that his children's books have eclipsed his other kinds of writing. Best known before Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) as a playwright, Miln...
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A. A. Milne, father of Christopher Robin and creator of Winnie-the-Pooh, ended his career with a small verse in the New York Herald Tribune Book Review (12 October 1952) titled "Always Time for a Rhym...
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Four books by one author became classics almost as soon as they were published in the 1920s: When We Were Very Young (1924), Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), Now We Are Six (1927), and The House at Pooh Corner...
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A Wisconsin man whose blend of awkward syntax, imminent disaster and bathroom humor offends both good taste and the English language won an annual contest Monday that salutes bad writing.Jim Gleeso...
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Marc Ambinder, who once wrote for the Hotline and who now pens a well-sourced, insider-ish blog about the 2008 campaign, has a fundraising appeal from the Giuliani campaign that will be distributed...
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Abby Waner scored 17 of her 24 points in the first half to lead top-ranked Duke past Virginia 79-58 on Friday in the quarterfinals of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament.Alison Bales had 13 po...
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Election 2008: After Democrats chickened out of hard questions from Fox News, it was heartening to see random queries from humble YouTube smoke out telling details about the party's candidates in M...
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Brian Butch scored 22 points on 7-of-12 shooting and No. 25 Wisconsin continued its home dominance in the Big Ten with a 64-51 victory over Iowa on Saturday.The Badgers (12-2, 2-0) won their sixth ...
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Big Blue is back in men's gymnastics. After losing the No. 1 ranking following a couple of late-season stumbles, Michigan rebounded with a third-place finish Thursday in the NCAA championship quali...
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Sam Perlozzo was having a great day. His son had been drafted by the team he manages, and his Baltimore Orioles appeared headed toward a victory over the Colorado Rockies.Then Perlozzo came out to ...
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ALBANYâEarlier this month, Michael Bloomberg and Eliot Spitzer emerged from the Governorâs midtown office with great fanfare and announced that they were ready, in...
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The sound you might have heard coming out of Staples Center the other night wasn't Jack Nicholson muttering to himself about better times while tearing the stuffing out of his courtside seat. Nicho...
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