Word: planned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Simon insists that he never tries to "write funny." The humor comes when he has correctly set up the situation and the characters. He begins a project with only a general plan; too detailed an outline kills his writing's spontaneity. "In a way, making an outline of a play (a technique he once, but no longer, uses) robs you of the joy of discovery." When it comes time to write, Simon starts at the beginning and has an idea of the conclusion, though often he does not use that ending. Sometimes the characters take off in their own directions...
...group of Afro-American Studies concentrators met in the Frederick Douglass Room of the Afro-American studies Building last night to plan their response to a possible demotion of the Afro-American Department from a department to a committee...
...plan calls for persuading workers to accept annual wage boosts of 7% or less by offering them tax credits equal to the difference between a 7% pay increase and the real increase in the Consumer Price Index, up to 10%. Business organizations still oppose the idea as inflationary in itself. Big Labor now finds real wage insurance at least palatable, if only because some workers might get some cash...
...billion. The recommendation is part of a sweeping Blue Cross-Blue Shield pro gram designed to keep the insurance premiums at current levels. A year ago the "Blues" stopped paying for 42 surgical procedures considered of doubtful value, saving an estimated $27.4 million a year. This year they plan to phase out payment for 26 obsolete laboratory tests. But the admissions tests, primarily those done on nonsurgical patients, are where...
...idea has great possibilities, but Truscott writes with the subtlety of a rifle butt. His villain, Charles Sherrill Hedges, commandant of cadets, is a pathologically ambitious martinet who tries to cover up the killing; his plan, an elaborate tangle of implausibility, is to make it look as if the academy's superintendent had ordered the coverup. That done, Hedges can take over as the supe of what cadets call "Woo Poo." But Hedges reck ons without Ry Slaight, a second-class man who stumbles upon the truth and then besieges it for nearly 500 pages, like Grant trying...