Word: instead
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Workers now covered would win a new hourly minimum of $1.15, instead of the $1.25 asked by the committee and the Administration. Some 1,400,000 newly covered workers, mostly in retail services, are guaranteed a $1 wage floor (the present minimum), but are excluded from time-and-one-half overtime provisions. The bill may run into trouble in the Senate, where a broad-based (3,500,000 new workers). $1.25 minimum wage bill, backed by labor, has the right...
...stark fact remains that there was no substance in the hopes which were temporarily raised by this reporter and other optimistic interpreters. Instead, there is the same old hard reality of the period of the missile gap, with all its potential dangers...
...versatile complex of latticed background panels, designed by Rouben Ter-Arutanian in 1956 and used for the dozen productions since, are gone this summer. Instead, Ter-Arutunian has encased the whole proscenium and stage within a surface of giant potato chips. This adequately serves the exotic Mediterranean Bermuda that Shakespeare specified for The Tempest; but it proves less fitting for Tweifth Night. Director Jack London, who has previously shown a penchant for gimmicking up his productions, has really gone 'round the bend this time, and must shoulder almost all the blame. I bet Shakespeare wishes he'd never added...
What possesses the modern playgoer? Above all, it is the chance to get away from modern drama that represents little more than introverted self-communion, from little plays about miserable little people. In Shakespeare, he sees characters probed in Freudian depth, without the jargon. Instead of words that plop over the footlights like dead tennis balls, he hears language that surges like the sea. The modern stage bleats with special pleadings...
...group of radicals. We need friends in Japan." The Miami News gave the back of its hand to local boycotters, pointed out that "the very thing the Communists want is loss of the U.S. market to Japan. The logical result would be a Japan allied to the Communist bloc instead of the free world...