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As he says in Lambert's book, "The text dictates the whole style to me, which may not be to the director's advantage because it means his touch is not immediately recognizable".
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We do not ask them [the doctors] to look again [at the text dictated] and to make changes.
The secretaries also used the meetings to clarify their interests, for example when they involved the nurses in a discussion about whether they should simply cut and paste the text dictated by the doctors to fit the standard form.
Interestingly, although both professional groups had clear negative/positive professional interests in discharge arrangements, neither group mobilized any power resources to pursue their interests: the nurses did not take up their concerns with the leading nurse or the project nurse, and, the secretaries tried to compensate by making the text dictated by doctors fit into the standard form.
But in the second, text dictates music with composers responding viscerally to the emotions of the poetry.
What is not played for laughs in this production, however, is Caesar's death, which comes, as Shakespeare's text dictates, at the hands of a group of conspirators and ends with Caesar as a bloodied lump on the floor.
Beckett's spare text dictates that E can only approach O "from behind and at an angle not exceeding 45 degrees".
When Indonesia's independence was proclaimed on 17 August 1945, Adam Malik obtained a copy of the text and dictated it by telephone to his colleagues at the agency.
At least I have not done this.' [Secretary, Hospital B] Interviewer: 'What do you do, when the doctors [in the text they dictate] do not follow the standard form [for the discharge letter]?
In contrast to Hospital A, there also appeared to be little informal auditing by the secretaries, as the following exchange illustrated: Interviewer: 'What do you do, when the doctors [in the text they dictate] do not follow the standard form [for the discharge letter]?
Frequently, when the national radio made an announcement, referring to "a military spokesman," the text had been dictated by Amin himself at the presidential lodge in Kampala, which he re-named the Command Post.
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