Word: illicit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Symbols & Substance. Since Albee is a playwright of the surreal, the coincidence of the wives' being call girls is not particularly damaging. But the husbands' casual murder of a drunken neighbor who discovers their illicit secret is less acceptable; it seems an excessively melodramatic device for making the point that the corruption of values means death...
Lest the public think that the racketeers are mellowing, the crime commission warned: "In whatever activity organized crime engages, legitimate or illicit, its method of operation is the same-the maintenance of a monopoly through extortion and violence or imposing the fear of violence." Added Commission Vice Chairman Daniel Walker: "They only get their money by dealing with the public, and the public can shut off their source of funds...
...poet, however, becomes the victim of his own exhortation: his rhetoric helps to clarify the futility of the affair. If he is successful, if he draws Lise finally into the experience of furtive and illicit love, he prevents the affair from ever becoming permanent. They cannot publicize their love...
...favorite device for profiteers. A pacification official in Gia Dinh province, for example, was caught collecting the pay for a 59-man Revolutionary Development cadre that in fact had 42 members. Though many sidewalk stalls of black-marketeers have been closed down, Saigon still has a thriving trade in illicit Western luxury goods pilfered or bought from the huge stocks brought in by the U.S. Veterans of the Korean War are reminded of the vast theft-ridden port of Pusan. "The Koreans were really much better at this than the Vietnamese," says...
...people in power. Increased contacts with the rest of the world should help to develop greater understanding of the techniques of government and business competition; and this, in turn, would encourage the confidence of Western leaders and international agencies, tired of seeing their aid money siphoned off into illicit channels...