Word: exits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Peking is actually anxious to get rid of most of the refugees. The Communists readily grant exit permits to those who are burdens on the regime-the old and the unproductive, women without jobs and tuberculous children. Others who want to escape buy their way out, paying cash-hungry Communist cadres up to $2,275 for a permit. Since the Portuguese have no restrictions, refugees use nearby Macao as a handy jumping-off point to Hong Kong. In Macao, operating openly under the aegis of the China Travel Service, no fewer than five Communist agencies with enticing names like "Favorable...
There hover over the play the tutelary figures of Strindberg, Hellman, the late O'Neill (especially Long Day's Journey Into Night), and the Sartre of No Exit. And why not? Albee was out to create a major work, and he might as well vie with the best. He has, in fact, come up with far and away the most impressive new American play to reach Broadway since Miss Hellman's Toys in the Attic three years...
...married couples constitute the entire cast. But, unlike No Exit, the main characters are not present on stage all the time. Albee has shown great skill here in the way he gets his people in and out of the room; one feels that they come and go because they need to, not because they are made to--no mean feat in the theatre...
According to the proposal, passengers would reach an underground bus level from the subway by escalator. A continuous bus service between the yards and Mass. Ave. would shuttle passengers to the Square. The kiosk would no longer be used as an exit, and escalators would carry passengers from the shuttle-bus to the street level through other exits along the sidewalks of the Square...
...with piteous cries of 'Tanditji, don't leave us alone!" This time, one of the leaders said: "If you continue to follow Menon's policies, we are prepared to contemplate that possibility." Nehru was beaten and Menon thrown out of the Cabinet. Joining him in his exit was Menon's appointee, Commander in Chief General P. N. Thapar, who resigned because of "poor health...