Word: possessives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps the highest compliment that may be paid to their mutual work is that they raise Pinter's first full-length drama to virtually equivalent rank with such later, more lavishly acclaimed dramas as The Caretaker and The Homecoming. Actually, The Birthday Party seems to possess a more vivid symbolic imagery and a greater sense of motion than the other two plays. Like Waiting for Godot, although in a totally ominous sense, this is a play about waiting. Stanley (Robert Phalen) is a piano-playing recluse hiding out as a boarder in a small provincial town. The landlady (Betty...
...four indicators. One is the level of federal spending. Two others are interest rates and stock prices, which Laffer believes offer "unbiased forecasts" of future inflation and future profits, respectively. His "efficient markets theory" holds that interest rates and stock prices reflect largely the judgment of market insiders who "possess information about the future." This idea might bring hollow laughs from borrowers and investors who have lost money because of the gyrations of interest rates and the stock market...
...members of an Overseers Visiting Committee do not necessarily possess the competence to judge the qualifications of possible faculty members and clearly do not have the responsibility to make such judgments. The members of the Visiting Committee of the Department of Government have scrupulously avoided any involvement with appointments in the Department...
...relations with local representatives of international organizations. The representatives, as Villot sees it, are key men: they influence the secretariats to which they report, and they often have a say in the selection of delegates to international conferences. "Good relations," argues Villot, "will facilitate the choice of men who possess Christian convictions." Predominantly Catholic countries should be pressured further-to give their delegates "unequivocal instructions, and if necessary suggest that those delegates make contact with representatives of the Holy...
...Harrisburg. Pa., grand jury indicted Berrigan and five others for conspiring to kidnap Henry A. Kissinger, Presidential assistant on foreign affairs, and transport him in interstate commerce; conspiring to maliciously destroy U. S. property, specifically, heating systems in buildings in the capital; conspiring to possess dynamite, plastic explosives and detonating cord without registering them under Federal law; and conspiring to transport these explosives in interstate commerce for the purpose of destroying property...