Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city of Cambridge work crew yesterday began the resurfacing and fencing of both the Harvard plot and an adjacent space along Dewolfe St. owned by St. Paul's Parish, 34 Mount Auburn...
...present tense, and struggles against the complications of time trying to break out of it. Time for Beckett is a kind of cancer on the whole body of existence, or else the sign of the original sin, birth. Only death can absolve that sin, and only the absence of plot can avoid the lie of a conclusive ending, happy unhappy or tragic. Beckett tries to be writing always in the middle, as in the midst of the almost endless sentences of Malone Dies toned, says Alvarez, in a "breathless, bodiless style." This writing is assembled from shored fragments, the wreckage...
...Technically, the Agnew case did not go to the grand jury until two weeks ago, and the majority of leaks came before then. Experts are divided over whether this distinction would prevent any contempt sentences. There is no doubt, however, in the unlikely event that a full-blown prosecutorial plot to prejudice Agnew's case is proved, there could be criminal charges of conspiracy...
Chile's strongmen attempted to counter the increasingly strident world criticism by releasing details of a Strangelovian plot that they say justifies their harsh treatment of leftists. The plot, which will be revealed in the U.N. this week by the Chilean Foreign Minister, is called "Plan Zeta." It reportedly called for the execution of 17,000 right-wing and moderate Chileans, including high-ranking military officers, former President Eduardo Frei, anti-Allende union bosses, justices of the supreme court, lawyers and businessmen. A government official who spoke to TIME's Benjamin Cate in Santiago last week said that...
...With a plot devoid of suspense, an air of regality is of the essence. Eileen Herlie strives for imperiousness and achieves glacial suburban pomposity. George Grizzard suggests a jaunty detached habit of command, but any show of passion is dissipated in petulance. All in all, one has the unsettling impression that a pickup cast of stewards and maids from the crew of the Queen Elizabeth II could have mimicked royalty more convincingly...