Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Saroyan began rehearsals fortnight ago with little more than a title, has let dia logue grow out of onstage argument among the actors, has written and rewritten so furiously that there are seldom enough copies of the latest script to see the cast through a complete scene. But everyone agrees that the play is pure Saroyan the latest gust of a strong second wind that seems to be reviving a 51 -year-old writer who has long seemed written...
...CROP OUTLOOK is for bumper harvest that may set new record, Department of Agriculture forecasts. Wheat ard corn surpluses will grow bigger as farmers schedule 337 million acres for planting, fewer than 1,000,000 below last year...
...last week the Times had plainly decided that it was past time for Castro to grow up. With a vehemence rare for its editorials, the Times took dead aim on Castro's shrill accusation that the U.S. had sabotaged an ammunition ship that blew up in Havana harbor. Castro's "outrageous charge," which whipped up "the passions and hatreds of his people," said the Times, "was paranoia raised to the level of national policy. Certainly the irresponsible and provocative behavior of the Castro regime in recent days plays directly into the hands of Cuba's enemies...
...them - the one filled with chivalric ideals of honor, the other cynically dismissing honor as mere "air" - stand all manner of men, and of human ambitions and failings and faiths. About equally between them, at the center of the play, stands a youthful Prince Hal, who must grow from being a thoughtless playboy and Falstaff's roistering playfellow into Hotspur's slayer and the eventual victor of Agincourt. With its carousing prince and its treacherous king and its traitorous rebels, with its grand-mannered plotting and grand-languaged speeches, Henry IV has considerable vitality without Falstaff...
...complaints of the textile industry threaten to split the Administration on the problem of the State Department's free trade stand v. the Agriculture Department's farm price supports, which encourage farmers to grow so much cotton that the huge surplus must be dumped on the world market. Last week the Department of Agriculture, which by law must make the U.S. cotton surplus available to world markets at competitive prices, asked the Tariff Commission for an 8? per lb. duty on cotton imports. Such a tariff would make up the gap between the low cost of raw cotton...