Word: existing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wise's father, Irvin, tried to produce the lenses for chickens after a sales agent told him about a farm where chickens afflicted with cataracts were better-behaved than those with normal sight, and he thought a market might exist for a lens that distorted the bird's sight...
...technology didn't exist at the time for the lens to work," the younger Wise explains. "The early lenses blinded the chickens...
...tide of reform is not likely to reach Bucharest so long as its despotic leader survives. Any Rumanian bold enough to speak out is beaten, harassed or imprisoned. Says Jane Ingham, a Rumanian specialist in England: "The regime is so oppressive that no opposition movement is able to exist...
Never mind the fact that, regrettably for fairness' sake at least, the draft does not now exist and that our troops for any war would predominantly come from poor and minority backgrounds...
Thoreau is, of course, the play's focus, and all the other characters seem to exist merely as his foils. Emerson (Elijah Siegler) is portrayed as a well-meaning, pontificating old man who is, at the end, rather pathetic because he does nothing to act on the ideals that he inspires in Thoreau. Other characters such as Thoreau's brother (David Javerbaum) who shares and makes corporeal Thoreau's ideals, and the man from the school committee (Ted Caplow) who attacks Thoreau for not sticking to the established texts, are also well portrayed...