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...chewing on his tail. The Crimson review in 1939 also went for Gone With the Wind (which has recently had a big revival) and for The Roaring Twenties (which still comes around now and again), "a saga of liquor and love that rolls through that fabulous decade into the gloom of the thirties." And the review highly recommends Bachelor Mother, in which Ginger Rogers, David Niven, and a jitterbug contest "all add up to delightful fare...
...response given three visiting orchestras from the West last year, the London Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra, Peking has launched an attack on the decadent composers who are the mainstay of the classical repertory. Beethoven, said the newspaper, was a "German capitalist," while Schubert's gloom resulted from his oppression by Austria's feudal rulers. If he had been a good Marxist, Schubert would of course have finished the "Unfinished" Symphony. Mozart is scarcely worth considering. Nothing he ever wrote compares with The White-Haired Girl, the propaganda-laden Chinese revolutionary ballet...
...this Third World gloom, there is of course one standout exception: the handful of underdeveloped countries that happen to be oil producers, including Iran, Indonesia, Nigeria, Venezuela and several Arab states, have struck a bonanza. Indeed, they could now afford to help their underdeveloped brethren, by setting a lower price on oil exported to poor countries than on petroleum sold to industrialized lands. In the past, however, oil producers have turned a deaf ear to pleas that they organize such a two-price market. They have argued, probably correctly, that it would lead to a black market that would siphon...
...gloom that has enveloped the industrialized West since the Arabs unsheathed their oil weapon in October lightened last week. Arab nations announced an easing of their production cutbacks-and around the world, there was growing suspicion that they never did slash oil output as much as they had proclaimed. Europe, heavily dependent on Middle East oil, seems surprisingly well supplied, and TIME uncovered evidence that Arab petroleum has been leaking into the U.S., too, despite a supposedly total embargo...
...economy, they can now see nothing but uncertainty-and sure enough, the market cannot stand it. A nearly perpendicular drop in prices has sheared a staggering $100 billion off the value of exchange-listed shares in the past six weeks and plunged Wall Street into its blackest gloom in two decades. In brokerage offices, the talk is all of margin calls, possible failure of some big investment houses and actual or potential unemployment for analysts and brokers...