Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shampoo, The Deep, Funny Lady and Tommy. Columbia's latest winner, Close Encounters of the Third Kind* may outgross 20th Century-Fox's Star Wars as the biggest box-office success of all time...
...personally blessed Horowitz' interpretation with the words, "He swallowed it whole." Horowitz had insisted on the Philadelphia Orchestra's Eugene Ormandy as the conductor; Ormandy had accompanied Rachmaninoff himself in the concerto. Tickets were awesomely priced: $75 for the orchestra, $250 for the first-tier box seats. But just try to find one. And anyway the concert was a benefit and all $168,000 of the gross -Horowitz and Ormandy donated their services-would go into the orchestra's coffers...
While the change in tone was not made for box-office reasons, it does serve to distinguish Harper's from its chief and more liberal rival, the Atlantic. Nonetheless, Harper's continues to print liberal and even left-wing authors. One of Lapham's convictions is that the U.S. system requires not only debate but also intellectual confrontation: "Democracy means that you and I must fight. Democracy means a kind of Darwinism for ideas." Though he wants to preserve "what is best in our traditions," he insists that he is not at all conservative "in the Republican...
...time he was 20, Byrd had saved enough to marry his high school sweetheart, Erma Ora James. Occupying two rooms of a house owned by his employers, the Byrds could not even afford an ice box; they hung half an orange crate outside a window. Four years later the couple moved to Crab Orchard, W. Va., where Byrd got a better paying job, as head butcher in a supermarket...
...long as the dollar's decline was orderly, they argued, money markets were better equipped than governments to determine its true value. Blumenthal gave many western Europeans the impression that the U.S. actually wanted the dollar to go down, partly because that supposedly helps American exports (see box...