Word: plough
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...occult and perverse notions filtered into the stories through their roots in country lore. If you take this book to a quiet place, where the noises of an increasingly cynical and materialistic world don't penetrate, it's not hard to remember the ancient magic of earth, seed, and plough...
...OTHER end of the Harvard Square area, and in many ways at the opposite end of the spectrum, is another Irish bar, the Plough and the Stars, down Mass Ave. towards Central Square. The Plough and the Stars must be called strange, if for no other reason than the conflicting and interesting reputations that have been attached to the place. First, and indisputably, it is known as an Irish bar. The juke box plays Irish songs, the Irish Republican Army is reputed (somewhat more dubiously) to use the place as a sort of unofficial headquarters. At times it has been...
Professor Chapman said recently in his course on Modern Drama that he would like to bring back the days (nostalgia again) of the riots at the Abbey Theatre during performances of The Playboy of the Western World and The Plough and the Stars, or even the riots after the first word ("merdre") of Jarry's Ubu Roi. Theater when it's working well, he was saying, is meant to be somewhat jarring and disturbing. But this spring's Harvard drama season is in total accord with the national attitude of escape and be merry. It is a whole feast...
...Plough, 81, made $39 million on paper last year; his 3% stock ownership in the drugmaking Schering-Plough Corp. rose to a year-end total of $105 million. Plough started in business at the age of 16 by borrowing $125 from his father in order to sell "Plough Antiseptic Healing Oil" door-to-door from a wagon in Memphis; 65 years and 29 acquisitions later, he has built a worldwide company that he still actively manages as chairman. Plough's record of fast earnings growth-from $1.43 a share in 1968 to an estimated $2.90 last year-has caught...
...fool in King Lear, the mad soldier in How I Won the War), earned his best notices interpreting the work of his playwright friends Sean O'Casey and Samuel Beckett; of heart disease; in Manhattan, where he was playing in O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars (TIME...