61.   William Safire, who writes scholarly pieces for The New York Times, is the kind of newspaper columnist I envy.

62.   With his fame in Britain and Ireland, some newspapers have asked him to write opinion pieces about the Troubles.

63.   Yet he is a pragmatic musician who loves to write pieces for specific performers and situations.

64.   After finding it quite daunting, I suddenly started in and wrote the piece in a state of tremendous excitement.

65.   But compared to how an audience might have responded decades ago, when the piece was written, the crowd behaved quite well.

66.   Fleisher remains interested in piano music for the left hand and is proud that pieces have been written for him.

67.   He began writing longer pieces.

68.   He lived under a false name at several addresses in England, occasionally writing pieces for newspapers or giving interviews.

69.   I sent her documents, and she wrote her piece without acknowledging the source of most of her information.

70.   In later life, she wrote occasional pieces for British newspapers, usually travel articles or book reviews.