Word: past
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the supposed correlation between the American ghetto and the African village is tenuous at best. Black Sociologist James Elsberry, assistant director of New York's Center for Urban Education, contends that the black man's distinctive cultural patterns are due not so much to his African past but to his long alienation from the hostile white American society around...
Even so, the pace of profit growth is slowing. In the third quarter of 1968, earnings had jumped by 14%. For the past two quarters, the gain has been just over 7%. The more recent results suggest that taxes and costs are overtaking businessmen's efforts to keep up profit margins-now roughly a nickel on every dollar of sales-by raising prices or increasing efficiency...
Billy Prince rose rapidly and soon established sovereignty over the farthest reaches of the realm. He burnished his Armour by moving into many new fields, like pizza pies and power shovels. Into the coffers, every year for the past four years, poured more than $2 billion. All this good fortune seemed too good to be true...
...piece humiliation is Malamud's game. One by one, he cuts off Fidelman's options-his little escape clauses from destiny. First, the would-be citizen of the world is sardonically reminded of the Jewish past he cannot shake by an absurd incarnation of the Wandering Jew named Shimon Susskind, wearing knickers and peddling rosary beads to the tourists at St. Peter's. When Susskind steals Fidelman's briefcase and burns the Giotto manuscript, he forces the ex-painter to reclaim another part of his grubby old identity -the role of impoverished artist...
DONALD BLOCH'S play, which opened last night at selected locations around the Eliot House dining hall, has absolutely no exposition, begins in fact with a vow to ignore the past and sticks by it. The future is another quantity ignored, and the play between turns out in consequence to be, among other things, smartly constructed. Instead of handing us tiresomely detailed, hideously flawed cases for treatment, Mr. Bloch throws out two empty characters and spends his nine scenes in an effort to make them worth knowing. He has set and filled in the process two hypothetical criteria...