Word: boon
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Musicals are often the bane and sometimes the boon of Broadway's existence. The coursing humor of Abe Burrows and the kinetic energy of Robert Morse's performance help to make How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying one of those rare musicomedy triumphs of form over formula. The belly laugh is the convulsive vogue at A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, where Zero Mostel, lewdly assisted by clowns and houris, is pillaging the comic genius of Plautus to vulgar and insane perfection...
Musicals are often the bane and sometimes the boon of Broadway's existence. The coursing humor of Abe Burrows and the kinetic energy of Robert Morse's performance help to make How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying one of those rare musicomedy triumphs of form over formula. The belly laugh is the convulsive vogue at A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, where Zero Mostel, lewdly assisted by clowns and houris, is pillaging the comic genius of Plautus to vulgar and insane perfection...
...Boon v. Boondoggles. The two disagree on everything else. Breeding seems unworried about Cuba ("I go along pretty strongly with what President Kennedy's doing about Cuba"); Dole argues for action ("I think a naval blockade has possible merit, and I'm concerned about any thought that the Monroe Doctrine may be outmoded"). On domestic economic issues, Breeding has voted with the Kennedy Administration. Dole has not. Says he: "No Kennedy leader has mentioned the possibility of reducing a program, any federal program. They want a $900 million boondoggle on public works. They've added...
While it has done much for the economy of France as a whole, the Common Market has been no boon to the French subsidiaries of General Motors and Remington Rand. Hard hit by massive French imports of low-priced Italian refrigerators. G.M.'s Frigidaire plant in France early this month laid off 685 of its 3,100 workers. Last week Remington, which has steadily lost ground in the French market to West German typewriter makers, announced that it planned to dismiss 300 French employees and move all its European portable-typewriter production to a newer plant in The Netherlands...
...Objections. "We have one valuable boon," says Publisher Worley. "Because we aren't in competition with anyone, publishers of other magazines are very helpful, and we've learned a great deal about the technical side of things in just a few months. From now on, the pieces will be shorter, and we'll use more pictures." Hopefully, such changes will nudge Atlas out of the money-losing habit that afflicts so many small-circulation magazines. For the moment, Eleanor Worley has no objection to making up Atlas' monthly losses out of her own pocketbook (though...