Word: britain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grants to industries strapped for investment capital. Benn's scheme is opposed by Labor moderates and the Confederation of British Industry; both see it as promoting further government intrusion in private industry. Yet some way must be found to channel oil revenues toward the modernization of industry if Britain is to meet consumer demand and remain competitive in world markets...
...outlook for Britain is better than at any time in the postwar years." He could be right?if the government finds the proper combination of tax cuts and investments in modernization. On the other hand, overly generous tax cuts, a niggardly attitude toward investment and a government cave-in to union wage demands could accelerate inflation again and continue industrial stagnation. North Sea oil does give Britain the chance to start the long climb to price stability and high employment?but it would be all too easy for the nation to blow that chance...
...Captain Hook in Peter Pan; of a heart attack; in Chicago, where he had been appearing in the musical Side by Side by Sondheim. A courtly, mellifluous-voiced bon vivant, Ritchard began in 1917 as a chorus boy in Sydney, played everything from Restoration comedy to modern farce in Britain, Australia and on Broadway. "I've seen so much illness and suffering," he once said, "why inflict more? My job is to make people grin a bit and see the joke...
...billed as "a light program in which the guests play themselves," so Denis Healey, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, accepted the BBC's invitation to appear in a TV parody of The Wizard of Oz. Decked out in a red cape and his own extravagant eyebrows, Healey plunks Over the Rainbow on a piano and hams it up with the denizens of Emerald City. At the end of his appearance, he called for contributions to the IMF-the International Magicians' Fund, that is-and beamed: "You just wave a wand and suddenly find your pockets stuffed...
...Magus, the author sends a Hollywood screenwriter on an engrossing psychological pilgrimage that undermines contemporary modish despair. Falconer by John Cheever. The loneliness of prison and memories is the theme of this deeply emotional novel. The Honourable Schoolboy by John le Carré. The further adventures of George Smiley, Britain's unlikeliest superspy, as well as a pitiless dissection of contemporary moral dilemmas. The Professor of Desire by Philip Roth. In presenting yet another of his Jewish intellectual heroes wrestling with sex and guilt, Roth enhances his reputation as one of the most consistently readable authors now at work...