Word: voiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nullity. New Yorker Harry Herscher happily quit paying his ex-wife Alice $125 a week when he discovered that she had been remarried for 68 weeks. Alice reclaimed alimony on a compelling ground: her second husband had not been divorced from a previous wife and her second marriage was void. Too bad, ruled New York Civil Court Judge Sidney H. Asch. Since Alice "intended to abrogate her right to support" when she remarried, Harry is off the hook for good...
...Bible. Lured by ballyhoo or simple piety into the vast, glittering void of this enterprise-an experience roughly equivalent to being swallowed by a whale-a bored viewer will nonetheless feel twinges of gratitude. After all, it might have been worse. Producer Dino De Laurentiis originally intended to tackle the entire Old Testament, hiring every writer, actor and director in creation for a series of films running Lord knows how long. He has settled for 22 chapters of Genesis, compressed by Director John Huston into three hours of empty illustrations from Scripture...
...rejected the data of Cass Associates, Inc., headed by Leo J. Cass '33, director of the Las School Health Services. FDA notified the manufacturer, cheesebrough-Ponds, that without Cass' studies, which were now void, there was not enough evidence that the drug was effective...
...People All Around is written in an old-fashioned protest-play form that seems utterly void of impact in the 1960's. Moments bear a striking resemblance to Waiting for Lefty. The play as a whole comes most definitely from a genre that pervaded the Odets era; Sklar's earlier titles, in fact, include works like Peace on Earth (1933), Stevedore (1934), and Life and Death of an American (1939), the final production of the Federal Theatre Project. Even the title And People All Around is revealing of the author's toward the "serious theatre" he sees this country lacking...
...People All Around is an energetic, thoughtful effort, both on the part of its author and of the Tufts company. But it is a case of misapplication: the serious-theatre void of the 1960's will not adequately be filled by the defunct self-consciousness...