Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thesis is that people simply are incapable of communication through the medium of language. Words are not understood, or have different meanings to different people. The tragedy of Ionesco's world is that people think words have meaning, try to use them to communicate and, hence, fail completely to know anything or anyone. The language of this world is the cliche and the pun. The normal reply is a non sequitur. As might be imagined, Ionesco is not an easy playwright to stage. Tufts handled him with courage and imagination, doing a fine job with Jack, and a perfectly adequate...
...next two years to encourage European feed mills and farmers to buy more U.S. coarse grains. The U.S. Rice Export Association of New Orleans invested $35,000 in a market analysis, learned that most European groceries sell rice out of bins; thus the European housewife often does not know whether it will cook up as firm, separate kernels or a gluey mess. One U.S. rice processor, Dallas' Comet Rice Mills, is now invading European retail stores with brightly boxed, consumer-size-packaged rice, reports promising sales...
...with curly, close-cropped hair and a smile that flashes like a beacon light, Quesada, 55, inherited his Spanish father's dark good looks and his Irish mother's charm and temper. He can be blunt or suave-but in either case he is likely to know what he is talking about. A pilot since he was 20, he has flown every type of Air Force plane, has been checked out to pilot the huge KC-135 jet tanker. Quesada wields more power than any U.S. air administrator before him: all the duties of the old Civil Aeronautics...
From all his ventures, Ekblom says that he has "sufficient wealth to provide for my family when I am no longer needed in industry." But many another executive has no such security. Says Ekblom: "I don't know the solution. Maybe the men in Washington who make up the tax schedule can do something about...
This strange menage a trois tours France, and at first everything is reasonably decorous. But the inevitable happens: the painter falls for Mara's catlike face and supple body. Readers who follow the story this far will know that he is the sort of coward who kills the thing he loves with a kiss...