Word: rented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scorches the stage with grief, fury, desire and despair. Framed in a set of huge bronze cubes appear the archetypal woman as mother, wife and slut and the arche typal man as son, father, husband and lover. They are not there to be joined to gether but to be rent asunder. "We must love one another or die," wrote W. H. Auden. Fire! proclaims that love is dead, God is dead, and man is dying. The playwright is a onetime actor now living in Europe who has adopted the pseudonym John Roc; he is a demi-Beckett who does...
...cars, he makes do with a blue Mercedes 280 S, which he uses for commuting to town. Up the road a few hundred yards, and overlooking the royal couple's home, are the more sumptuous quarters of Queen Mother Frederika and Princess Irene: a ten-bedroom mansion provided rent-free by Greek Millionaire Felix Mechoulam. Country life for the royal family has had its drawbacks. The dearth of servants is particularly perturbing. The royal court has been trimmed to three, a lady-in-waiting for the Queen and the two business aides for the King. On Saturday afternoons...
...have ruled a sovereign state since the early nineteenth century, but where also such Black Rule or, if you prefer, Black Power, has been oppressive and dysfunctional for the black masses or lower classes? Or should we take the present-day state of Nigeria, where the polity is rent asunder by fratricidal warfare that was sparked by a grotesque genocidal act committed by one against another in this largest of all black societies? Or should we take as typical of the Black Experience the Afro-American community which was subjected to chattel slavery for over 200 years...
...dividends, to be sure. At cur rent prices IBM's annual dividends ($4.35 last year) amount to a mere .7% return on investment, against 4% for other manufacturing stocks and 5% for bank savings accounts. But growth is something else again. As a result of splits-including this week's-and other distributions, a 100-share investment in 1914, which would have cost $2,750, has grown to 59,320 shares worth more than $20 million...
...demands of the campaign include the creation of 2 million federal jobs for the nation's poor, expanded model cities and rent subsidy programs, the establishment of a guaranteed annual income for those unable to work, and immediate relief for hungry people in hundreds of rural counties...