Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tumultuous '60s draw to a close, TIME'S various departments this week present their summation of the "Top of the Decade"-the ten events in each area that seem to us to have had the greatest impact or to symbolize the most important events. We hope that readers will be intrigued by-even if they may occasionally disagree with -the judgments of our editors and critics...
...Morgan in 1939, and shook up the stodgy banking community by aggressively scouring the country for new accounts and training a new generation of bright young employees to follow his lead. By 1959, Morgan was a growing, $915 million concern, and Alexander had the stage set for his greatest coup: merger with $3.13 billion Guaranty Trust...
...National Film Theater began to spin out a series of his films. Occasions like 70th birthdays tend to bring out hyperbole, and uncritical reassessments blossomed in the press. Some critics went so far as to rank him with Sheridan and Wilde, or to call him England's greatest living playwright. Such judgments overlooked the extent to which Coward's work is sheerly theatrical, meaning not only shrewd in stagecraft but also remote from lives and issues outside the theater. The stage is all his world, and players are the only people...
Coward's greatest single gift has not been writing or composing, not acting or directing, but projecting a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise. He had it as a newcomer of 25, when he walked into a fashionable party where all but he were in formal dress, took in the situation at a glance and said reassuringly: "Now I don't want anyone to feel embarrassed." He has it still, dapper in a brown dinner jacket, hand elegantly holding aloft the perpetual cigarette, answering a request for a definition...
...Japan forges ahead of West Germany to become world's third greatest industrial power...