Word: earns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opera, as in the original story, Wozzeck is a captain's batman who offers himself to the sardonic and sadistic regimental doctor as a physiological demonstration piece for the doctor's lectures. Wozzeck's purpose is to earn enough money to support his girl, Marie, and their child. But, tormented and ridiculed, Guinea Pig Wozzeck begins to have hallucinations. When his girl is seduced by a strutting drum major, Wozzeck mutters confusedly about "sin"; he stabs Marie, throws the knife into a pond. Then, in fear of discovery, he wades into the pond to recover the shining...
...contrast to these two families, Aymé brings in his barber, a self-satisfied sage who gives advice, in the name of France, to cabinet ministers after hours. "The Frenchman's got no use for revolutions," the barber says in one pronouncement. "What the Frenchman wants is to earn a comfortable living, eat well, drink well and enjoy himself." But the cream of Author Aymé's jest is that his barber, his symbolic natural wise man, is a fool himself...
...same goes for Melanesia, but the Micheners add a practical if: "If we could earn some income, have screening, some kind of lighting system and some native boys willing to work for a decent wage...
Smith, who played in the first few games of the series before coming back to Cambridge last week, will probably earn his $100 by guarding the clever Goose Tatum. In the first six games of the series, Smith outscored Tatum twice, getting 22 points in one game...
...Village, sketched red chalk portraits at $200 each. Portraiture involved "too damned many dinner parties," so Tobey switched to painting lamps and screens for a while. In 1923 he trekked West to Seattle, has lived in the Northwest off & on ever since. Painting sales plus stints of art teaching earn him enough money to live simply and make occasional trips...