Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gleaming orange and blue Howard Johnson's sign never made it to Brattle Square. Ho Jo's had intended to take over the management of a 23-story motel in Brattle Square, but negotiations fell through in June...
...pens, and the quality of the line creeping across the page. Beckett's writing cultivates its own present tense, and struggles against the complications of time trying to break out of it. Time for Beckett is a kind of cancer on the whole body of existence, or else the sign of the original sin, birth. Only death can absolve that sin, and only the absence of plot can avoid the lie of a conclusive ending, happy unhappy or tragic. Beckett tries to be writing always in the middle, as in the midst of the almost endless sentences of Malone Dies...
...things you're afraid they will say or stand only as lifeless symbols in Young's moving picture puzzle. There's no justification for the use of people in these roles. For all Young uncovers about the dehumanized college graduate, he might as well have put a "College Graduate" sign around a rock and used that for his symbol...
...band member who preferred to remain anonymous said yesterday that one student confessed to the police that he removed a sign and then returned it to them. The spokesman added that another band member retrieved the second sign after conferring with a third student. These three band members are threatened with summonses...
...almost all women, while its higher-paid skilled jobs have nearly all been held by men. The situation has long outraged feminists, and last January they won what seemed a significant victory: their complaint to the Government's Equal Employment Opportunity Commission forced American Telephone & Telegraph Co. to sign a consent decree under which it agreed to throw open every job in the system to both sexes.* Nine months later, that decree is having a topsy-turvy effect; it is producing many more male operators than female linemen or telephone installers...