In a letter devising the interview, Southern envisaged "a sharp boost in American demand; a burst of reprinting; stage, film, and video offers; dollars pouring in by the veritable barrelful!" But in the interview itself Southern appears to find Green's neglect admirable, as if obscurity were a mark of integrity.
We've marched, starved, petitioned, written letters, devised legislation and even gone entertainingly off-piste to raise awareness and register our rage.
"Specialized to versatility," he found it equally easy to organize armies, reform the Post Office, write the most charming of love letters, devise the best of bons mots, foresee the future of the United States, invent bifocal glasses, suggest the merits of crop insurance, and compose amusing erotica.
At moments like these, even hardened Beckettians may feel their thoughts drift toward the peerless parody of a typical writer's letter, as devised by James Thurber: "B — dropped in yesterday (Icky was out at the time) and gave some sort of report on Neddy but I am afraid I didn't listen (ut ediendam aut debendo!).
Michael Murphy of the California Technology Stock Letter has devised a quantitative approach to analyzing emerging technology companies: He calculates a statistic he calls "growth flow," which adds R&D spending per share to earnings per share.
The Letter was originally devised as a 13-week series.
Local writer Nikolai Karamzin devised the letter in 1797 to fill a gap for the sound he found lacking in the alphabet.
But that's not the case, report two physicists in the 6 April Physical Review Letters, who have devised what they think is a way to at least send your ionized, black hole-shredded remains backward in time.
The letter says the health bill, devised by the health secretary, Andrew Lansley, is not supported by the majority of the medical profession and is not in the best long-term interests of either patients, doctors or the royal colleges.
He was instinctively interested in technical subjects, inventions and letter forms and, as a teenager, devised his own secret alphabet to communicate with his brother and friends.
