Word: yen
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Rehearsals were slow work. Watching the action, Clurman would dictate comments to two translators ("That girl drops her handbag as though there's not a yen in it"), then pantomime the parts as he wanted them played while the notes were read in Japanese to the actors. Despite this cumbersome procedure and the actors' difficulty with naturalism, Clurman thinks that he'll have a hit when the play opens on Sept...
...used on their hair, and he managed to find a bed to sleep in only five times in 72 days. Finally, on July 30, he chugged into Paris-the winner by almost four weeks. His circumnavigation cost more than five months and $8,600-every penny, yen, ruble, mark and franc of which Schuster carefully computed in his stained, penciled notebook...
THROUGHOUT the world, industrialization is spurring millions to want more-and to feel more thwarted when affluence and equality are too slowly achieved. In the highly industrialized U.S., the fever is intensified by racial and generational clashes. The result is impatience with the political process: a yen for direct action has created a charged emotional climate that inflames inherently violent minds...
...M.I.T. owns much of this land. On the Right is Santa Maria Hospital, home of the Red Sox when ill. Joyce Chen, a very wonderful lady, who came here from Korea two years ago without a yen and serves very wonderful food, now owns this very fashionable restaurant. On the left is the Charles River...
...take on Republican Senator Kenneth Keating. The avuncular, popular incumbent accused the Kennedy people of distorting his record, and the nonpartisan Fair Campaign Practices Committee sided with Keating. It seemed of a piece with Kennedy's background: his brief stint with Joe McCarthy; the prosecutor's mentality and Sicilian yen for vendetta; the management of Jack's 1960 campaign, in which lovable Hubert Humphrey had been driven from the race and humiliated. Now, in New York, "carpetbagging" and dirty pool. But he went on to win, and to capture uneasy primacy in the party...