Word: sixtieth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Theatre East (Sixtieth Street near Third Avenue) is a cramped basement whose very slightly claustrophobic atmosphere reinforces the mood of the play, which is given in three-sided arena style with the audience close upon it. The arena arrangement strengthens the claustrophobic feeling, and Jack Youngerman's stark set does nothing to dissipate...
...disease in its most benign form, "indolence." For Etienne, every day passes like every other, leaving him untouched, unchanged, unmoved, like a man asleep. His foster father Jacob, with whom Etienne lives, has spent his time observing life with such quiet detachment that he has "reached his sixtieth year without ever having had a serious illness or an enduring sorrow." Vigorous pioneers built the home of Jacob and Etienne, but in four generations the family has "shrunk to two quiet bachelors...
...Employers and trade unions should face that fact without delay . . . Raising the usual retirement age from 65 to 70 . . . would probably increase by at least a million the number of persons between 65 and 70 years of age who are at work. These persons would add nearly one-sixtieth to the national product-in other words, they would increase it by almost $4 billion a year. The whole community would benefit from this additional output...