Word: greats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have to have one really big pot, something you can boil macaroni and rice in, cook corn-on-cob in, wash your hair in, wash your dog in. Get one that's big enough so that a mop will fit." For another: "Wine and liquor are great for cooking, and also for the cook. In fact, more important for the cook than for the cooking." Thus armed, pot and potted, Alice's disciples are advised merely to improvise and advertise. "If you tell people that what you're cooking is absolutely fantastic-if you squeeze their...
...recent seasons, the guilt peddlers have brought the following wares to the dramatic market: The Deputy, The Investigation, Incident at Vichy, Soldiers, The Man in the Glass Booth, The Great White Hope, In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer and now Indians. These plays have much in common. While an occasional effort is made to specify some individual responsibility for crimes, oppressions, injustices, and atrocities, the dominating j'accuse is hurled at the audience. The audience is presumed to be collectively guilty of every misdeed in recorded history. This is patently absurd. By embracing the abstraction of collective guilt...
...actor who died insane in 1948. He was also a visionary and a prophet with a dream of what theater might be. In poetic though sometimes muzzy language, he coined the idea of "a theater of cruelty." To interpret the phrase solely by conventional usage is to miss a great deal of what Artaud meant by it. For example, he wrote, "Everything that acts is a cruelty," and "Cruelty is rigor...
...three of the biologists were honored for their experiments with bacteriophages, a group of viruses that infect bacteria. Scientists had long known that after it invades a bacterial cell, a virus multiplies rapidly into such great numbers that the cell bursts, releasing a host of identical viruses that seek out and enter other cells, where the process is repeated. By studying these viruses, researchers hoped to learn how more complex forms of life reproduce and pass on hereditary traits...
...great is the desire for easier credit that some Wall Streeters had convinced themselves that the Government will have to ease monetary policy, and their wishful thinking helped to spur last week's rallies. Some brokers pontificate that the proliferating signs of economic slowdown or even coming recession will soon force the Federal Reserve to relax the squeeze...