Word: maze
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...several other European countries are planning to follow suit. An excise-type levy on goods produced (the U.S., by contrast, usually taxes only the profits of companies that make the goods), the new tax figures to streamline the traditional European system, which heretofore has resulted in a maze of overlapping assessments. It thus will make it an easier bookkeeping matter to rebate the full tax paid by exporters and, at the same time, to exact the full tax on imported goods-precisely the practices L.B.J. was complaining about...
...buildings should be approached with a sense of humor," says Esherick. For fun, he split the massive factory in two with a zigzagging Italianate alley, designed a mysterious maze of stairways and pedestrian bridges. Martin, an unabashed eclectic, has refurbished an old Fifth Avenue double-decker bus for neighborhood excursions, is leasing a 13th century Moorish ceiling to one of the ladies' specialty shops. From the estate of William Randolph Hearst, he has purchased a 95-ft.-long oak-paneled gallery, said to have been designed by Inigo Jones and built by Queen Elizabeth I for her Ambassador...
...essence of life and the universe to Borges is an inexplicable maze, a labyrinth: "I have only my perplexities to offer you. I am nearing seventy, I have given the major part of my life to literature, and I can only offer you--doubts." He values the innumerable philosophies that he knows, not as solutions to the enigma--for it is not solvable--but as esthetically enjoyable constructs...
Move & Breathe. No one, not even the most discontented (and never the author), questions the aims of the Organization. The real difficulty is to move and breathe as an individual in the organizational maze. Not all are gifted with the ability of Miss Bass, who can be indifferent to associates but finds "it easy and even gratifying to direct fraternal feelings towards large numbers of people living at great distances." Mild staff cynicism naturally accompanies a search for a man to fill a job; he "must walk the middle path-a man of middle years and middle brow was wanted...
...sequiturs, three-two, one game all. The game at Elsinore is more ominous. Seen through Hamlet's eyes, which is the angle of vision Shakespeare has imposed on Hamlet, the play has a purpose. But seen through the eyes of R. and G., Elsinore is a maze of cross-purposes and Hamlet is a Mad Hatter. They smell the death and disaster around them and wistfully hope to escape, but where to? The court of Denmark has given them the only identities they have ever had-roles...