Word: waked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...absurd are inconsolable at the vision of a godless universe, but they regard their audiences as complacent, apathetic, asleep. With taunts and shock effects, by continually destroying illusion to remind playgoers that they are watching a play, by using the debased language of cliches, the absurdists try to wake up an audience to what they regard as life's tragic farce...
MacNeal said that the Post has stopped playing the "numbers game"-a trade term describing the practice of maintaining accelerated circulation at any cost. He also denied some of the rumors rising in the wake of Curtis' decline. It is not true, said MacNeal, that Curtis could not meet November interest payments on its debentures (no payment was due then), or that it would not even be able to redeem the debentures, i.e., repay the loans when due (not until...
Toland's meticulous investigation provides some fascinating footnotes. Major James Devereux, the gallant U.S. Marine Corps defender of Wake, did not send the famed message: SEND US MORE JAPS. The message was idly tapped out by an unknown signalman. Nor did the U.S.S. Houston sink four Japanese transports off Java's Bantam Bay. They were actually torpedoed in error by the Japanese cruiser Mikuma, Toland reveals. General Imamura assumed that the Houston was responsible, and his chief of staff was too embarrassed to contradict...
...audience is not omnipresent, and all of the songs (like all Irish songs, I'm convinced) have the gift o' th' gab. The performers, too, are ebullient, effervescent, and effusive, a welcome change from the generally sullen mien of the folksinger. Songs include the famous "Tim Finnegan's Wake" ("a song of death...a song of resurrection"), "Brennan On the Moor," and (Orangemen take note) "The Old Orange Flute." I cannot recommend it too highly. (This means I own a copy.) The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem have several other releases, on Tradition and Riverside, which are not too hard...
...temperature had dropped to 30° in the wake of a bitter, 20 m.p.h. wind. Most of the 134 contestants who lined up on Michigan State University's golf course at the start of last week's four mile N.C.A.A. Cross-Country Championships were well insulated against the cold: they wore stocking caps, ear muffs and sweat shirts. Some even wore socks over their hands. Not Oregon State's hardy Dale Story, 19. Barefoot, dressed only in lightweight trackman's skivvies, he explained: "I like the natural feel." Added Story's coach, Sam Bell...