Word: reads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite its name, Pennsylvania Life Insurance is based in Los Angeles. It concentrates on selling disability income insurance, which its 1,850 salesmen peddle with missionary fervor to self-employed merchants, farmers and smalltown businessmen. The salesmen are not required to be creative, but merely to read a 25-minute presentation prepared by the company. Management's philosophy is that anybody who can read can sell. Success is founded on making plenty of presentations; salesmen make as many as a dozen brief calls for each prospect who is willing to listen to a presentation. But Penn Life has calculated...
...drew capsules from a large container. It read a date off of each capsule. It compiled a list of the dates in the order in which they were drawn. And from this list it made the Master Plan that dictates which of its citizens are to gave two years of their lives (maybe the last once) to murder and brutality and hared...
...This summer I was acting with the Harvard Summer School Repertory Theatre, and the director of Death of a Salesman (William Kinsolving) brought in a copy of jerzy Grotowski's book, Towards a Poor Theatre. I read it and a whole new world opened...
...windows. Another passed from car to car with a rubber chicken in a pot. Suddenly one of the revelers ripped a peace sticker from my bumper and pasted it across my front windshield. A take-off on the jingoism of "love it or leave it," the sticker read "America-save it or screw it." I got out of my car to talk with the prankster and a crowd formed. One over-thirtyish girl said, "Look at his granny glasses" and her companion said, "I'd like to pull every hair on your chin...
...leasing agency, which was closed. We returned to New York with the knowledge that the perpetrators of this deed would probably never be caught and might at the moment be drinking still more whiskey and bragging to their friends about the incident. But if any of them happen to read this letter, I would only like to ask them, now that they are sober, if this is their idea of "freedom," of "law and order," and of "protection of private property." If so, an American version of Kristallnacht cannot be far away...