Word: exiting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only landmark is the beacon on one of the few hills at the city limits. Visitors are always taken to the beacon to see the fine farmlands to the south and west, the motorway to the east, and the decaying city of Wigan to the north. There is no exit or entrance to the motorway at Skelmersdale...
...well aware that he is in trouble. He has asked virtually all his close friends and associates to write memos telling him what has gone wrong. But there is some question whether they will really do so. All too frequently, candor-on-request has resulted in a speedy exit from Johnson's inner circle...
Though it is the first exit explored by many draft-eligible men, conscientious objection is often the last, desperate choice. For even if he succeeds in becoming a C.O., a man must perform two years of alternative service, usually as a civilian hospital orderly or Army medic. Many unarmed C.O.s have, in fact, served-and died-valiantly as medics. "There are easier ways to beat the draft," laconically notes Harold Sherk, 64, a Mennonite preacher who heads the National Service Board...
...longer shock, his attacks, in the era of black humor, seem peculiarly tame and tepid. Manifestly, he intended Angel to fly on several levels. It could be a metaphor of proliferating fascism, as in Camus' The Plague. Or it could be a restatement of the theme of No Exit, Sartre's trapped-in-a-room drama: hell is other people...
Last week Levin headed toward the nearest exit. "I was in the position," he explained, "where I could only move sideways or backwards." Therefore, he and his associates sold their 720,000 shares of MGM. Of that total, 420,000 were bought at $59 a share by the youthful (38) president of Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Ltd., Edgar M. Bronfman, in a personal transaction. The remaining 300,000 shares were acquired, at the same price, by Time...