Word: hearse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Alchemist, by Ben Jonson. It is ironic for the Lincoln Center Theater to be doing this play, since the troupe specializes in turning dramatic gold into lead. Some new actors are present, notably Michael O'Sullivan, a mutilatingly funny man. They help to steal the show from Jonson...
No matter how ordinary the event, no matter how stirring the picture, the news that Cronkite and his colleagues bring into the American home always carries a kind of subliminal authority. The effect can be traced, says Cronkite, to the almost embarrassing intimacy of the camera. Even more important, he...
As soon as he reports his discovery, he hears from every federal agency that has been helping to pay for his research, no matter how small the share. He starts bargaining for his patent rights. Regulations vary from agency to agency, but when the professor finishes bargaining, he may well...
Of course, there may be no profits to begin with. Once the discovery is in government hands, it may be the last anyone hears of it. All government-owned patents are in the public domain; any firm can use them. How many companies are going to spend their own time...
Nobody really sees him. Nobody really hears him. He is the fellow in the frayed white tie and tails, the one buried seven rows back peering sourly through a cluster of elbows. He is the symphony musician - bored, frustrated and anonymous. So he didn't become the second Heifetz...