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In fiction it means generally apolitical, domesticated narrative that remains willfully ignorant of modernism (the highbrow style doesn't work with the guild's self-presentation), leaning strongly toward the confessional, memoiristic, autobiographical, narcissistic, and plainly understood.
Anis Shivani: Creative Writing Programs: Is The MFA System Corrupt And Undemocratic? Anis Shivani 2010
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Over the years, he was secretary of the Federation of Guild Reporters and directed the guild's Safety and Health program, speaking widely on computer-related hazards and appearing before Congress and state legislature committees.
Obituary: David J. Eisen, reporter and Newspaper Guild employee, dies at 85 Post 2010
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Breaking the legal guild's control over judicial selection.
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The writing guild's opposition to literature departments comes in very handy -- in recent years, the guild has been preferred by many who would previously have gone into the study or teaching of literature or other humanities, since the intellectual requirements (to write a memoir of illness or dysfunction, or a story, which these days is more or less indistinguishable from memoir) are minimal, compared to, say, writing a dissertation on Chaucer or Wittgenstein.
Anis Shivani: Creative Writing Programs: Is The MFA System Corrupt And Undemocratic? Anis Shivani 2010
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The writing guild's opposition to literature departments comes in very handy -- in recent years, the guild has been preferred by many who would previously have gone into the study or teaching of literature or other humanities, since the intellectual requirements (to write a memoir of illness or dysfunction, or a story, which these days is more or less indistinguishable from memoir) are minimal, compared to, say, writing a dissertation on Chaucer or Wittgenstein.
Anis Shivani: Creative Writing Programs: Is The MFA System Corrupt And Undemocratic? Anis Shivani 2010
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The guild's press release contains the complete list of nominees.
Producers and writers guilds announce nominations. And like everyone, they love 'The Social Network' Jen Chaney 2011
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"Some of our members would be happy to see the law go away, but the majority feel it's important that there's a licensing test," says Jim Heegeman, the guild's president.
Some tour guides challenge constitutionality of District's licensing test J. Freedom du Lac 2010
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Dick Van Dyke will reunite with his former co-star and TV wife, Mary Tyler Moore, at the SAG Awards, where he'll present her with the guild's 48th Life Achievement Award, executive producer Jeff Margolis announced Wednesday.
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"Some of our members would be happy to see the law go away, but the majority feel it's important that there's a licensing test," says Jim Heegeman, the guild's president.
Some tour guides challenge constitutionality of District's licensing test J. Freedom du Lac 2010
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In fiction it means generally apolitical, domesticated narrative that remains willfully ignorant of modernism (the highbrow style doesn't work with the guild's self-presentation), leaning strongly toward the confessional, memoiristic, autobiographical, narcissistic, and plainly understood.
Anis Shivani: Creative Writing Programs: Is The MFA System Corrupt And Undemocratic? Anis Shivani 2010
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