Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Within the Scheme...
...goes entirely against the grain of Mr. Steinbeck's philosophy, which was based upon an intense, pantheistic love of nature, and led him to "animalize" his characters in order that he might free them from their sanitized, alienated existence and place them with utmost dignity within the grand scheme of the universe...
...properties. Hickel's critics complain that he has been far too friendly with Alaska's oil operators to be given the Interior Secretary's wide regulatory powers over the entire $50 billion petroleum industry. Hickel has also alienated many Northeastern Senators by his opposition to a scheme for cutting fuel costs in New England by permitting imports of foreign oil through a free trade zone at Machiasport, Me. He has, however, promised to re-examine his stand on that...
This theatrical scheme can be an effective one, and it is flexible enough to allow a constant updating of the show. The Light Company, for example, has a bit taken right from the morning's headlines which will be changed every night...
THERE'S NOT A whole lot can be said about The Open Theatre and its concoction called The Serpent: A Ceremony. They both represent an infant theatrical form as yet more of a reaction against the purely verbal drama than a definite scheme for its undoing. The guiding principles of this reaction are few but give an idea of where the form may be heading. The author, if there has to be an author, is merely one rather docile element of the collaboration; that's to say he provides the words, if there have to be words. The effect...