Word: briskness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Luxingshe. Though they carefully emphasize the more attractive aspects of Chinese life, the tours nonetheless reveal a good deal of its quality and detail. The accompanying color pictures, taken on one such tour, show smiling children in their best dress, model schools, other civic projects and an air of brisk, bright uplift -but they also make clear the ceaseless indoctrination, the careful regimentation and the firm discipline that pervade life in Red China...
...found their stride. Turning to the contemporary, their readings of Quincy Porter's Quartet No. 3 and Vin cent Persichetti's Quartet No. 2 crackled with clean precision. In Dvorák's Quar tet in F Major, Op. 96, their tempos, if sometimes inflexible, were brisk and lively, their tone as rich and heady as a draught of May wine. Neither muscular nor mushy, their approach was marked by a warmth and intuitive sensitivity that projected the sweep of the music in bold relief...
...most part, Munger exploits them well. Most importantly, he keeps the show moving along at a brisk pace, crashing through gags that don't work until it comes to some that do. The plot is simple enough: Dionysus (Paul Cooper) want to resurrect a great poet to help Athens through a crisis. Accompanied by Xanthias, his slave (Walt Licht), he descends to Hades and presides over a debate between Aeschylus (John Allman) and Euripides (Tom Popovich). Aeschylus triumphs and returns to life, presumably to cure the city of its ills...
...from none in 1951 to 17 today, and Bache & Co. now has 16 offices in Mexico City, Tokyo, Beirut, Hong Kong, and a dozen European cities. Also spreading overseas are Dean Witter; Fahnestock; Harris, Upham; Smith, Barney, and scores of other brokers. In addition, U.S. bank branches do a brisk business in the stocks of American companies or their foreign subsidiaries...
Encroaching Desert. Smart shops in Tripoli and Benghazi-the twin capitals-display Dior dresses, footwear from Italy and tape recorders from Japan. Auto agencies do a brisk business, and visitors are warned to watch both ways for "first-generation drivers" -registrations have risen from 12,000 to 55,000 in five years-as well as for gaping chuckholes in the streets, beneath which Tripoli is installing its first modern sewer system. New hotels and apartment houses are sprouting like desert flowers; three new hotels worth $10 million will soon be started in Tripoli alone. A small upper-middle class...