Word: know
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whole, lifeless forms. Rarely to they seem human; often they seem to be nothing more than sex machines. One more pot of hashish or an additional romp in the love bed could not save the book. Zane's monsters no doubt have read their Henry Miller carefully and know their cues perfectly. Only their performances are shoddy, awkward, and deserving of the stage manager's book...
...Here is a story of a strange world and some troubled people," the dust jacket proclaims, "written by a young man who knows them at first hand." But how does Zane know them? Does he care? Does he approve? Does he condemn? Indeed, for the reader, does it matter? Wyeth and Steiner ultimately appear trivial and absurd. A child, at least, grows up; but the down-and-outs in Easy Living are adults gone to seed. They are grown men and women romping in diapers, shouting to attract our attention, aware of our criticism, scornful of our values, yet forever...
...those social regulations which transform the chaotic into the orderly, or in condemning those who seem to be more principled and responsible than himself. No matter how often we ask, however, Zane leaves us in a moral haziness, which leads us in turn to suspect that he doesn't know how to solve the moral dilemma he has generated. Perhaps this is because he has known too well these strange people, because he has been too long in their strange world to distinguish now between ponography and love, dirt and scum, mistakes and downright sinfulness...
About eight to ten students per year incur hospital bills which they cannot afford to pay, Dr. Farnsworth stated Monday evening at the Student Council meeting. He said that "the idea of catastrophic insurance was strictly a personal suggestion, to which I wanted to know student opinion...
...Which Mont Saint-Victoire?" Kahnweiller wanted to know. Cezanne painted the theme many times...