Odessa Young: The complexity in which she was written, a testament to Simon's writing, which is just perfect.
Cooper reaches into his desk, pulls out some paper and begins to write a last will and testament.
Walter John Harmon himself has not been persuaded to write down a testament, nor has he permitted anything to be written in the way of documentation.
Writing a "personal testament" is Mr. Havel's next task.
She believed her husband would pull through and that writing a last testament was tantamount to giving up on him.
From 1921 onward Stalin flouted the ailing Lenin's wishes, until, a year before his death, Lenin wrote a political "testament," since widely publicized, calling for Stalin's removal from the secretary generalship; coming from Lenin, this document was potentially ruinous to Stalin's career, but his usual luck and skill enabled him to have it discounted during his lifetime.
In Good Morning, America (1928) Sandburg seemed to have lost some of his faith in democracy, but from the depths of the Great Depression he wrote a poetic testament to the power of the people to go forward, The People, Yes (1936).
Shields, of course, has written an entire testament, the manifesto-like book called "Reality Hunger," in defense of the chop-shop approach to prose, with a high-minded po-mo appeal to the constant recycling of other people's words as itself a kind of originality.
"That a family would sacrifice its only bathtub for a week in pursuit of the freshest fish," he writes, "was a testament to the importance of the dish".
