Word: working
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Poor Dad, Kopit displayed a minor gift for surrealistic comedy, and in Indians he has attempted to entertain when not pulpiteering. The format is that of a Buffalo Bill Wild West show. In London, where the work originally opened, the parody-circus scenes came first, including the last-minute rescue of the innocent maiden from the ignoble savages. The somber account of the expropriation, humiliation and decimation of the Indians followed, together with the pleas of their chiefs...
...million, compared with $275 million in April 1968. A deluge of foreign orders 41% higher than a year ago is pushing Germany's industrial machine toward the limits of capacity. "We cannot go much further," says Werner Meyer, director of Blaupunkt, the Bosch radio and television subsidiary. "We work on Saturdays and overtime, and still deliveries are months behind schedule...
Through the A.L.A., the nation's two largest unions agreed to work together toward goals that they might not be able to achieve alone. For Reuther, frustrated in his efforts to make national policy through the A.F.L.-C.I.O., the linkup provides a base of 3.6 million members and a podium from which to advance his ideas. Last week he reiterated his call for national health insurance, tax reform and organization of community action groups to speak for the poor and the black. For the Teamsters, the alliance offers a much-needed aura of respectability. The Teamsters' acting president...
...November but faces another five-year prison term for conviction on charges of fraud in handling union pension funds, which he is appealing. Hoffa is likely to resume his old job once he gets out. When he returns, no one expects that he and Reuther will be able to work together in harmony. They may not have to. If the Teamsters brighten their image enough to recruit many new members, labor's bad boy may be able to dissolve his alliance with the U.A.W. and return to the A.F.L.-C.I.O.-on his own terms...
...series of soft implosions of self-perception. Janet realizes that she has been denying her impulses as a writer. She is guilty of self-censoring the matter and treatment of her work in order not to embarrass her family or jeopardize her suburban status. She vows that in the future she will make use of hate, envy, lust and fear. But for a woman who believes that art is condensed reality in the way that concentrated orange juice is the essence of a healthy breakfast drink, such a midyear's resolution will scarcely be enough...