Word: agent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That Certain Age. The rest of the cast is a ship of ghouls: a warlock, a 175-year-old witch (played by a nubile blonde), lab-made monsters whose ev ery part is a transplant, a ghost and an agent of the devil. One of the few nearnormal human beings is the matriarch of "Collinwood," the haunted manor that is the scene of the action. That role is filled by the show's top-billed star, former Film Actress Joan Bennett, 58, who says frankly: "You reach a certain age in Hollywood when there's a shortage...
...corrupt tool of Conglomerate, a group of large corporations that plan to exploit national lands for their own interest. He expects to become Conglomerate's chairman, and is obviously a bigger rascal than most Congressmen. But the plot is familiar, and the novel admittedly originated as an agent's suggestion designed to capitalize on Pearson's role in exposing Dodd...
...President. Thieu has sacked 16 of them, but Huong would clearly like to see more relieved. So, too, would Thieu, but competent replacements are hard to find. Old avenues of corruption persist as well. Draft exemptions can still be bought: it costs only $425 to become a secret-police agent or $250 to join the Regional Forces and thus escape regular army service. And big names still enjoy protection. Not long ago, an ARVN colonel was charged with corruption but was not tried because he had too much influence...
...called "the wishing book," and it was usually tattered and dog-eared by the time somebody punched a hole in it and hung it in the family privy. When this particular catalogue appeared, the firm of Sears Roebuck and Co.-founded by Richard W. Sears, a former railroad-station agent, and Alvah Roebuck, a watch repairman -was four years old and prospering...
Smuggler of Truth. The poet whom McCarthy would most like to emulate is William Butler Yeats. But probably his closest direct influence is Lowell, whom he calls a "poet of purity and of parsimony" and a "double agent of doubt, smuggler of truth...