Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...never write again!" his literary agent said. But seven years after disappearing behind Gethsemani's walls, Merton produced The Seven Storey Mountain. The autobiography of conversion sold 300,000 copies in less than a year (more than 3 million as of 1984). That book was followed by 60 other volumes of meditations, poems, essays, criticism, history, translations, drawings and photographs. For masses of readers Brother Louis, as he was called by the Trappists, redefined the image of monasticism and made the concept of saintliness accessible to moderns. His treatise on meditation, New Seeds of Contemplation (1962), was deemed...
...such grim testaments of the tragedy, however, the question of jurisdiction must be resolved. The American lawyers representing Bhopal clients argue that suits can be brought in the U.S. because Union Carbide India is 51% owned by the Union Carbide Corp. of the U.S. and is thus an agent of the parent firm. The U.S. corporation, they further contend, is responsible for the Indian plant's design and safety program. Cautioned Hoyt, who has represented Union Carbide in other matters: "Just because you have equity in a company doesn't mean that company is your agent." The plant...
...bogus Oceanside, Calif., store called Golden State Surplus, authorities bought pilfered flak jackets, combat knives, .45-cal. magazines and sleeping bags from Camp Pendleton Marines for 10% to 20% of their cost. "Marines were quite literally breaking down the door trying to sell us gear," said FBI Agent John Kelso. Among the purloined goods were 9,400 blank military ID cards, which could have been used for access to mili tary bases. Most of the gear was never reported missing. Some inventories even showed an over stock, indicating that higher-ups may at least have winked at the practice...
...furor, if you remember, centered on the playwright's objection--based on third-hand reports--to the ART's change of locale from a bare room to a subway tunnel, the use of incidental music by Philip Glass, the large puddle at stage center, and what Beckett's agent called the purposeful casting of Black actors in two of the play's four roles...
Beckett, now living in semi-obscurity in Paris, sent in a short pronouncement for the program through his agent: "The American Repertory Theatre production which dismisses my directions is a complete parody of the play as conceived by me. Amybody who cares for the work couldn't fail to be disgusted by this...