Word: lid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is one thing Clark Mollenhoff, 45, cannot stand it is a secret. His automatic response to the merest hint of secrecy has made him one of Washington's most feared as well as respected investigative reporters. Because he cannot resist lid-lifting, Mollenhoff has at one time or another outraged, embarrassed or exasperated Dwight Eisenhower, Sherman Adams, Ezra Taft Benson, John Kennedy, Everett Dirksen, Jimmy Hoffa, George Meany, Lyndon Johnson, Bobby Baker and Robert McNamara, to name just...
...mood of his plays is traumatic loss, a vestigial memory of the expulsion from Eden. With elegiac melancholy, Beckett intones a Kyrie eleison without God. Godot is hope's requiem. The two tramps are waiting for Godot in vain. In Endgame, the lid is lifted on a character who is dying in an ashcan, and it is disclosed that "he's crying." "Then he's living," says another. The only sort of affirmation lies in Beckett's very act of communicating the darkness of his vision. As Eric Bentley puts it: "If one truly had lost...
...TIME to state that Sylvia Plath "adds a powerful voice to the rising chorus of American bards who practice poetry as abreaction" (aberration?) is to sanction what today is the "in" thing to dp-lift the lid off the cesspool and revel in its bad odors. Spare us the ravings of the "confessional poet": poetry is no place for psychotic self-purgation. Miss Plath is typical of those who, in the words of Poet GustaV Davidson, have "corrupted poetry by emptying it of music, magic and meaning...
...murder, treason, multiple incest and matricide, and blinds his father-after which he is crucified in precise imitation of Christ. London's critics cast one look at the tasteless mayhem at the Old Vic and held their noses. Whereupon Osborne, 36, flipped his Angry Aging Man's lid, firing off telegrams to the London papers. Osborne declared an end to his "gentleman's agreement to ignore puny theater critics as bourgeois conventions. After ten years, it is now war, open and frontal war, that will be as public as I and other men of earned reputation have...
...problems are mostly about pay, not politics. "The wage rate," says one RMK-BRJ official, "is the most explosive issue facing this outfit." Surprisingly, the combine wants to pay more but cannot. The wage lid is being held down tight by both the U.S. embassy and the Vietnamese government, not only to frustrate inflation but also to keep the U.S. combine from hiring sorely needed skilled workers away from Vietnamese employers, who pay up to 23% more. Under their U.S. Government cost-plus fixed-fee contracts, RMK-BRJ's wage scales are pegged at 1957 levels; machinists start...