Word: factors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effects of the strike on industry have been slight. For the Pennsylvania, the strike was costly. The road has already lost $1,814,640 this year, estimates it will lose $2,500,000 a day in passenger and freight revenue because of the shutdown. But one factor softens the blow. It will receive payments estimated by Quill at $600,000 a day from a strike fund set up last year by most of the nation's biggest railroads...
...Weed Factor, by John Barth. This comedy of picaresque errors and escapades, set in colonial Maryland, is as deadly serious as it is wildly funny. Its sobering thesis: since man cannot penetrate the multiple masks of reality, he can never really know himself...
...WEED FACTOR (806 pp.)-John Barth-Doubleday...
...innocently signs away the family property and sees the family manor Maiden, turned into a bordello. By the time he is captured by Indians, Ebenezer finally understands "the crime I stand indicted for, the crime of innocence." He abandons poetry and finishes out his life as a sot-weed factor, or tobacco peddler...
Lost Garden. Bawdy in manner and ironic in detail, The Sot-Weed Factor i that rare literary creation-a genuinely serious comedy. Author Barth, 30, assistant professor of English at Penn State, is clearly fascinated with the multiple facets of reality and just as clearly convinced that the real is unknowable. "No man is what or whom I take him for!" cries Ebenezer wildly, and indeed the Poet Virgin cannot even penetrate the "vasty reaches" of himself. Unlike Candide, he cannot cultivate his garden, because he is too lost in philosophic speculation to understand that the garden is there...