Word: sir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sir: In your review of Oedipus [Oct. Ill, you castigate Chris Plummer for making the King of Thebes "arrogant rather than hubristic," his fate more like "a matter of just deserts than a result of the awesome machinations of Apollo." Face it, baby: Apollo is dead. Nobody prays in the Theater of Dionysius today. And whatever the 20th century gods do, they don't machinate. Sophocles' play, though, lives on. Ever wonder why? Chris was trying to tell you, but you didn't listen...
...June war and the end of 1967, worldwide sales of Israel bonds and United Jewish Appeal contributions pumped some $550 million into the economy. Though those sources are thinning out-they are expected to yield only $230 million for all of 1968-such overseas friends as the Rothschilds and Sir Isaac Wolfson, the British retailing magnate, are currently spurring a drive for new investment capital...
...Excuse me sir, did I hear you correctly...
...just don't know where General Motors is, that's all." But son, don't you know that what's good for General Motors is good for the country? Yes sir, I know that, but I don't know where the country is, Sir...
...SIR, I have heard many things about rows and rows of neatly symmetric desks, with neatly symmetric businessmen behind them, and about automated managers running them, these are all cliches without a grain of truth, aren't they...