Word: clue
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will come in the next six weeks, when companies release their first-quarter earnings. Railroads, copper and other metals, already hard hit in 1957, are not likely to improve. Nevertheless, Wall Street feels that the basis is being laid for a rise in late 1958 and 1959. One clue is the widening spread between stock dividends and bond yields. In July, when stock prices were high, bonds yielded only .32% less than stocks; today, with stock prices much lower (and bond prices higher), stocks pay up to 1.17% more than bonds, are thus more attractive buys...
...This is nothing to what happens when the village doctor has his busy days and the little strangers prove to be stranger than is customary even in science fiction. The fathers, it is now clear, came from outer space, and left no forwarding address. Nor did they leave any clue as to why the children (60 in all) should have golden eyes and be gifted with the power that all ordinary children want but do not always get-the ability to command the adult world...
...addition to the black, white and red mosaic, there are wall frescoes, lamps, chancel rails and a whole system of locks. Prausnitz dates the church in the 4th century. One clue: the liberal use of the cross on the floor mosaics, a practice that the church prohibited A.D. 427 on the ground that the feet of worshipers profaned the sacred symbol. A second indication is the floor plan-a long rectangle in the manner of 4th century Roman temples. Definite dating must wait upon other scholars and future excavations...
...Instead, it frequently suggested a melange of scrambled lantern slides. James (Tales of the South Pacific) Michener's commentary, delivered in a tired drawl, was repetitive, primer-simple, and studded with long gaps in which the viewer was left without pertinent information about the picture, or even a clue as to its locale. The film was more than half over before Michener got around to mentioning the issue that makes Southeast Asia's present crucial to the U.S. future-i.e., the Communists and the West are both struggling to win the region to their side...
...images vanish. What remains is a sense of irony or of elegy. The listener's mind wanders, but a foot begins to tap, a hand to twitch in time to the music. Rhythm alone, motion for its own sake, take over. And that is the clue to what George Balanchine has done by way of choreography. Unlike his previous "neoclassic" collaborations with Stravinsky (Apollo, Orpheus), this work is abstract dance: there are no costumes or scenery and the Greek title, Agon (contest), does not denote a conflict of plot but simply a sort of dancers' free...