Word: specializing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...special bonus this year, the draft pool is larger than it will be again. Every1-A aged 19 to 25, inclusive, during 1970 will be in the pool for that year. In later years, only those who turned 19 the previous year-and those who lose exemptions during the year-will be draft-able...
...autobiographical work to it. Playwright Oliver Hailey's Who's Happy Now? may not be autobiographical, but it has the indelible sound of private experience. His play belongs among the most perceptive portrayals of the son-father relationship that have been brought to the stage. Its special quality is that it is an Oedipal farce, zany, effervescently comic and full of as many crazy laughs as a clock has ticks...
...group of students at Notre Dame last week locked up a Dow Chemical Co. recruiter to protest the company's manufacture of napalm. This time there was a special irony to the encounter: Dow has quietly stopped producing the sticky incendiary jelly...
...Besterman puts it, Voltaire set out none too scrupulously to guarantee himself financial security. Before his 24th birthday, he had become an instant success with his first and most famous play, Oedipe, in which he used Greek tragedy to give vent to his lifelong hatred of absolute monarchy. A special lottery, which he manipulated to his advantage, was his first financial killing...
...simply overwhelmed his age with his will, energy and versatility. Yet out of the 10 million words that Besterman estimates he wrote, how many are read-how many are readable-today? Certainly not his dated verse tragedies about Frenchified classical heroes. Nor his special-pleading history. Nor his philosophical tracts like Traité de Métaphysique which placed him, in Besterman's phrase, only "the tiniest possible step away from atheism...