Word: fretted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such are the elected handicaps of Do You Turn Somersaults?, which began a five-week run at Washington's Kennedy Center last week. The old parties who fret, fuss, fumble and fudge their way into twilit romance are Anthony Quayle and Mary Martin. But the play is nonetheless an event, for this is Mary's first appearance on the stage since I Do! I Do! almost ten years ago. Surely she deserves the rose-colored badge of courage, if nothing else, for choosing this comeback vehicle-a fragile work that could expire of its own sweetness without...
...lowest monthly increase since December; housing starts jumped to an annual rate of more than 2 million, a cool 46% ahead of a year earlier; corporate profits increased 11.4% in the second quarter. But all this was lost on Wall Street, where stock traders continued to fret about everything from interest rates to new tax legislation. The Dow Jones industrial average, the market's most widely watched barometer, dropped 7.62 points last week, to 863.48, its lowest since the first day of trading in January...
While "Zonians"fret, Panamanians prepare to move...
Flight Talk. The phenomenon reflects both cold economics and some fevered concern about political and social malaise abroad. Canadians fret about increasing tensions between the French-and English-speaking communities. Middle Easterners are apprehensive about what they see as political and economic drift in the European countries, where they have traditionally salted away their wealth. Says Dr. Nazmi Abdel Hamid, former governor of Egypt's Central Bank and now an adviser to the Arab-European Bank: "Increasingly...
...Square would now be a minor occurrence compared to Bob Dylan's grand entrance, but lines still form in front of Bogart movies at the local theaters. University librarians perpetually devise and abandon schemes to force students to return their books on time and Cambridge officials continue to fret over illegally parked cars. And the town remains, as The Crimson warned incoming freshmen more than two decades ago "a dreary place, given to rain and coal smoke and brown, granulated slush." Perhaps most importantly, or to some, most disappointingly, the campus has recaptured the quietude and air of normalcy that...