Word: ruth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only when he sells his play--and himself--to a greasy promoter who cuts out all the idealism and long speeches (two constituents, of course, of Osborne's own power), and changes the play's name to Telephone Tart. Another factor is his rejection by Mrs. Elliot's sister Ruth, the only other character in the play who thinks and talks and understands on his level...
...Ruth is a dramaturgic necessity. Soliloquies are unworkable in the realistic convention within which this play is written, and Dillon must have someone to talk to who will greet his outbursts with something other than scandalized incomprehension. But the authors have attempted to make something of her besides a confidante for Dillon. They have equipped her with some plot-material of her won, and her own bag-full of points to make...
...hard to know exactly what to make of Ruth. For a time she appears as a disillusioned Leftist intellectual: she says she has just quit the party, after "seventeen years. It's rather like walking out on a lover." She and Dillon discuss this major crisis in her life for half a page or so, and then drop it, permanently...
...members are Lucy Busselle of Everett House and Princeton, N.J., concentrating in History and Literature; Mrs. Ruth Ellen Gahm of Cambridge, in Social Relations, and Stephanie Lang of Holmes Hall and Chappaqua, N.Y., in History and Literature...
...system is the invention of Bill and Ruth Marantette, a young engineering, couple from Columbia Falls (pop. 1,232), Mont. They started work three years ago in a garage workshop with $2,500 in savings, an $1,800 loan, plus further cash put up by Topp when it bought the invention. The major objective of the Marantettes was to eliminate the complex, expensive computers used in previous control systems. Such computers cost $60,000 and up, need trained engineers to program and manage their operations; every instruction in a process must be turned into a mathematical equation, which...