Word: ascent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heady ascent to fame has left Mrs. Miller slightly bemused, and still sweetly oblivious to the fact that she can't sing worth a hoot. "I'm not the best musician in the world," she says modestly. "My musicianship might crumble under someone like Leonard Bernstein." And while she candidly admits that her classically trained voice is not attuned to rock 'n' roll, she is touched by the interest of her teen-age fans. Last week, while trying to decide which of her two concert gowns she will wear for her appearance on the Ed Sullivan...
...economy, which started its missile-like ascent in February 1961, still has plenty of go. In a report to the Treasury last week, members of a 25-man advisory panel of private economists, led by the University of California's Seymour Harris, predicted unanimously that the expansion would continue through 1966, though in all likelihood at a slightly slower pace than this year's. The panel foresees a further $40 billion rise in the G.N.P. to at least $710 billion by the end of next year...
...Broadway THE ROYAL HUNT OF THE SUN, by Peter Shaffer, an eye-filling theatrical spectacular set in 16th century Peru, is fine when it sticks to tableaux of weary conquista dors making their nail-clawing ascent of the Andes. When it gets down to dramatic brass tacks, however, the play is full of such tacky fugues as war is hell, God is dead, and life lacks meaning...
...ROYAL HUNT OF THE SUN, by Peter Shaffer, is an eye-filling theatrical spectacular set in 16th century Peru, and it ranges from the pantomime of weary conquistadors making their nail-clawing ascent of the Andes to the incandescent white and gold robes of the Inca sun god. When it gets down to dramatic brass tacks, however, the play is full of such tacky fugues as war is hell, God is dead, and life lacks meaning...
...life of cosmic oppositions, of pressing and encompassing dualities. One is hardly surprised to find Kazantzakis posing problems like the battle of spirit and flesh in this way--but he extends the approach to many other battles. He explains that he views his life as a battle for spiritual ascent--and the reader of Report to Greco becomes overwhelmed by the extent to which he lived and wrote about life in these terms...