Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Were the Authorities Lax? Edgartown Police Chief Dominick Arena, a well-meaning former state trooper who had escaped to the island to avoid the tensions of the mainland, was on a diet of tranquilizers last week. In his own words, he had never investigated anything more serious than complaints of...
To carry out its recommendations, the Duncan report suggested that the foreign service divide its operation into two spheres: the "area of concentration" and a second-class "outer area." The first consists of major countries of Western Europe and North America-plus a few others, like Japan and Australia -that...
Critics who are lauding this as an indifferently lighted Death of a Salesman are missing the point. (Besides, if it's a death, it's a movie death. A central duplicity is being practiced here-a duplicity which violently, perhaps fatally, transgresses principles of minimum interference. How likely is it...
The grief reaction to sudden death runs a predictable if painful course. After the loss, surviving family members may suffer from such psychosomatic complaints as gastrointestinal or respiratory problems. They are also likely to pass through a series of other disorders, from visions of the dead person to guilt feelings...
Perhaps the freshest play is Ptakovina, by Milan Kundera, who is one of those fighting to keep the writers' union committed to the liberalization program of 1968. Kundera's novel of Czech Stalinism, The Joke, has the directness of a fist in the face; it has been made...