Word: lessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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COCK-A-DOODLE DANDY is a Sean O'Casey play that has rarely been staged during the 20 years since it was written. Accustomed as they are to the theater of the absurd, today's theatergoers are less likely than the audiences of the '50s to balk at the play's zany unconcern with sequiturs, probabilities or dramatic p's and g's. The very talented players of the APA Repertory Company make this blast at what O'Casey felt was wrong with Ireland into a rollicking, rambunctious piece of theater...
...deserved $1,000 for each of us after doing an excellent and very unemotional job of it. Later that year he was shot by border guards. He was going back to smuggle out his fiancee. Believe me, no mere profiteer was he, but I would not take a penny less for that kind of an occupation...
Candy from Congress. If the Nixon Administration is moving with short, measured steps to deal with its foreign problems, its tempo in domestic matters seems slower and less specified. During the week, Nixon let it be known that he would recommend overhaul-though not outright abolition-of the Electoral College system. He said that he favored tax reforms designed to meet mounting congressional clamor for closing some of the loopholes that allow many of the very rich to live entirely taxfree. He has been in close touch with Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee...
...side can now substantially destroy the other even without striking the first blow, and marginal changes in either quantity or quality of weapons will not change that fact. Hence a rough balance exists. Both sides are also spending heavily. However, proportional to gross national product, the military burden weighs less on the U.S. than on Russia. Mutual escalation could only end in a new balance at a higher and more expensive level...
...SOME of the other people in the boy's group, however, there was less joy that day. When the boy left Gabrielle, he went back outside to lie in the sun. Jimmy, Susie, and June--the triangle--were all in the bath behind him. He was not aware what they were talking about--he was on a trip of his own--but he suddenly looked up to see Susie frantically pulling on her clothes. He realized that June was still in the bath, but that Jimmy had left. Susie stared at him, then screamed, "You uninvolved son of a bitch...