Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once said, "Every author has a meaning in which all the contradictory passages agree, or he has no meaning at all." This play contains such passages. For example, the first two acts make real sense only if one assumes a homosexual relationship between Bertram and Parolles; yet the last half of the play precludes this situation. Until I am convinced that the inconsistencies do in fact agree, I am rash enough to put the blame squarely on Shakespeare...
...country roads." The play gains disturbing relevance of the most immediate sort by taking place among the power elite of one vast political system the night before its confrontation with those of the other side--on the frontier, "the point of attrition between two huge wheels. One half of the world against the other." One fears that it was only a sense of the most literal realism that led Betti to choose this milieu as the setting in which the gospel of irresponsibility is preached in its baldest form: "We are all excused from having to act. We are only...
WHIRLPOOL CORP. Half-year earnings were $1.50 a share, nearly three times last year's figure...
CONTINENTAL CAN Co. Half-year sales jumped to $535 million from $499 million, upping earnings to $1.54 a share from $1.44-despite a price cut in metal cans to meet competition...
Most businessmen felt that, barring a really disastrous steel strike, the second half would be as good as the first, and maybe better. Their outlook for all of 1959: a record year for both sales and profits...