Word: singularities
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...German professor, gesturing broadly from behind the podium, maintains that the essence of the creative production, be it the project of the many, or indeed, of the singular, is above all relevant to the schizophrenia of the author...
...playwright, Alan Ayckbourn, 51, is represented in the West End by a new play, Man of the Moment, and a stunning revival, Absurd Person Singular, and at his regional theater in Scarborough by yet another debut, Body Language. All three are characteristically bleak and acidulous comedies staged by the author himself. The conventional wisdom about Ayckbourn has been that he started as a boulevard farceur and turned darker in the course of his 39 plays. Yet Absurd, from supposedly sunnier days in 1971, shows that acutely observed misery and hypocrisy have been his comic subjects all along. The funniest scene...
...addition to business triumphs, the Newhouses won a singular victory in March against the Internal Revenue Service, which was suing for $609.5 million in taxes on S.I.'s estate. Although S.I. had held the only voting stock, his heirs argued that voting and nonvoting shares should be treated equally because any stockholder dispute could result in protracted litigation and block a potential sale. The U.S. Tax Court agreed and thus effectively ensured that the family would not have to sell off properties, as other media clans have had to do, to pay the tax bill. Wrote Washington Post economic columnist...
...play games with God. They use inclusive terms only when the manuscripts clearly intend to speak of humans in general. To avoid "he" or "him" in these cases, many verses use plural pronouns. Unfortunately, the third-person-plural wordings are less personal and often less pointed than the singular forms. The word man, which occurs in many well-known verses of the R.S.V., is replaced by such synonyms as "mortal" or "humanity...
...Enola Gay, shorn of its wings, its long fuselage in two parts, commands center stage in this singular historical drama. There is something spiritual and awesome about walking up to the silver flank with the stencil that was put on a few days after the B-29's famous mission: FIRST ATOMIC BOMB, HIROSHIMA...