Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stage got our preconceptions singed. Here is a playwright who is not afraid of beautiful literate language, and none too soon. He has rejuvenated the anemic field of Poetic Drama Since Shakespeare. J.B.'s quality of language and quality of thought make it one of the few plays worth paying Broadway's orchestra-seat ransoms...
Peace on earth and good will towards men is worth working for, and even the most hard boiled probably give it a thought or two over the holidays. That the Christmas spirit is so ephemeral should be no indictment against Christmas, but merely against the rest of the year...
Thought he admires the synthesis as "an ideal goal," Professor Handlin questions whether it is worth recapturing. The successful synthesis of the Thirties, he says, rested on a "genuine point-of-view." It would not be worthwhile, he feels, to use such devices as breaking up the tutorial lunches to achieve an "artificial unity...
...businessmen were stepping up their buying again. One immediate result was a lessening of unemployment. The Labor Department reported that employment picked up in most of the nation's major industrial centers last month. Six areas were removed from the substantial unemployment list (Indianapolis, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Fort Worth, Dayton, Hamilton-Middletown. Ohio, and Columbus, Ga.), leaving 83, lowest since last March...
Although licensing restriction required that the papers be distributed free on the streets, a few New Yorkers insisted on paying for their copies, and the New York Times purchased $2.00 worth of the special edition for its city room. Only one passer-by refused to take a paper when it was pressed on him. "No thanks," he said, "I'm a subscriber...