Word: existance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Feeling that the plays of his day "tried to capture verisimilitude, not reality," Wilder set out to write plays that would exist against the largest dimensions of time and space. Our Town solves the problems of stagecraft by avoiding them. "There's some scenery for those who think they have to have scenery," comments the Stage Manager when two trellises are pushed out onto the stage. There are lighting directions--and Lewis Lehman's lighting was effective--but one has the feeling that the play could get by on the one bare bulb which shines on the stage...
...hope that in giving H.S.A. a "fair trial" you will take into consideration the facts as they exist today and not as they did two years ago. Phillppe Charat '60, H.S.A. President...
When Mr. A. does condescend to quote sentences which exist, he substitutes three dots for crucial grammatical features. He is thus able to turn English into Incoherence. His careless pen cannot even copy titles of articles correctly. By dropping an 's' from "Pigs" Mr. A. transforms the author's scholarly announcement of her subject into name-calling...
Slow Start. At the moment, such a Bundeswehr is still a long way off. The twelve divisions exist largely on paper. Even the seven "combat ready'' divisions transferred to NATO during the past two years are training groups through which thousands of raw recruits pass annually, later to be peeled off as cadres for other divisions. Of the total planned strength of 200,000 men, the army today has only 123,000. Of the 2,500 pilots the new Luftwaffe will need, only 650 are trained, and new pilots are qualifying at the rate of only...
...traveling New York security analysts were looking for cheaper buys than exist in the booming U.S. stock market. Though European prices have risen sharply in the past six months, stock yields are still higher and price-earnings ratios lower than in the U.S. The analysts found plenty of reasons why U.S. investors need to be sophisticated in buying European securities. Tax laws and accounting systems differ; dangers of nationalization and freezing of capital still lurk in some countries; many European companies have yet to adopt the U.S. attitude that the stockholders have every right to look at the books...