Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...free market exists only in the minds of capitalist ideologues and that the economy, free of governments intervention, is controlled by large organizations-big business and trade unions. Since corporations plan out production and to some extent anyway, prices, he argues that government planning would only be a minor change and a great improvement over the current system. The most controversial of his proposals is the call for price and income policies or controls yet his defense in this essay is quite unconvincing. He notes that "much arguments to the contrary, a strong income and price policy served the United...
...first published novel. The Small Rain. "I always knew I would go on and find out what happened to Katherine later in life," she says, "but I had to grow up enough to find out first." The same half whimsical treatment of her creations carries through to the minor characters, such as one Felix Bodeway who becomes Katherine's closest friend in A Severed Wasp after playing a decidedly tangential role in her youth. "I really didn't think any good would come of Felix," she says. "But when I started to write the second book, there...
...concerned that nowadays Presidents phone Prime Ministers and Senators leaving no record of their conversations. Couldn't Reagan write short notes when he finished his calls? He'd create a mountain of paper, maybe, but 200 years from now his jottings would be invaluable. There followed a minor scholarly disagreement George Nash (The Life of Herbert Hoover, Volume I) mentioned that Hoover was the first President to have a phone in his office. No, countered Arthur Link editor of the Woodrow Wilson papers, there is a photo showing three phones on Wilson's desk. Frank Freidel, biographer...
...Preparation" can mean anything from research into the literary tradition of the work to investigation of the historical setting-both the one in which the drama was written and the one in which it takes place. Updating a play, even if it means only minor rewriting of the script, requires the most caution and understanding of all. To take an obvious example, recklessly pushing Shakespeare into the '20s can erase important themes along with the "wherefore art thou...
...produces five shows a year, drawing its cast from the Boston area and, once in a while, from the Harvard community. The occasional students who get roles don't exactly star; like Hackett and Alison Taylor '84, also in Syracuse, they take minor roles. Hackett plays a prostitute with a few lines...