Word: briskness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Enterprising traders do a brisk business smuggling cigarettes into neighboring West African countries through Gambia. The country imports enough cigarettes to supply 3½ packs a day to each of its 316,000 men, women and children, but sporadic attempts to diversify the economy have ended in disaster. A mining scheme failed (no minerals); an ambitious shark fishery collapsed (no demand). The British government put $2,000,000 into a model poultry farm outside Bathurst, but disease and bad feed killed off the chick ens, and after production of 40,000 eggs-at $50 an egg-the farm was transformed...
Owens, erect and brisk at 64, readily concedes that his Selma University is wildly misnamed. It is not a full college, much less a university, since only its three theology students study for four years. It cannot get accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools even as a junior college, because it has no science building, pays its faculty $1,000 less than the required minimum of $4,500, and has no teachers with master's degrees in science, mathematics, English, business or social science. Owens' problem is money. In fund raising, he says, "you always...
Conversation Piece. Dealers are doing a brisk business in hawks, owls and toucans. More surprising as a feathered friend is the vulture, but Chicago Dealer Bernie Hoffman sells at least a dozen a year at $50 a head. "A vulture," he observes, "makes a wonderful conversation piece sitting on the chandelier." Bernie Hoffman can sell all the tarantulas ($5 each) he can lay hands on. He insists that "tarantulas can really be quite tame. They learn to love their masters. You can teach them to crawl up your...
TCHAIKOVSKY: SYMPHONY NO. 6 ("PATHÉTIQUE") (Deutsche Grammophon). Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic do not reveal their dramatic intentions until the third movement. It develops from a brisk march into an inexorably advancing avalanche of sound that is eventually submerged in the ebbing, surging melodies of the finale...
...know best what the consumer is likely to do are Jack Straus and the nation's other merchants. They generally forecast that an average U.S. family of four, which spent an average $8,320 last year, will spend about $8,650 this year. The brisk increase in consumer demand should go far toward bringing about what Washington foresees as a 6% gain in both corporate profits and the gross national product, to some $63.5 billion and $658 billion respectively...