Word: halcyon
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...elected next month. The poll returns suggested a continuing shift away from Labor's once-commanding margin, sent London stocks shooting ahead, caused bookmakers to revise their odds against the Tories from 2-1 to 6-4, moved Laborites to grumble about the effect of England's halcyon summer upon public sentiment. Labor took some comfort from the fact that the latest Gallup poll still found the Tories 6% behind, al though admittedly coming up, as the race entered the last stretch...
...that, students of the history of piano-playing may now find answers to many of the questions that nag their conversation (But how good was Busoni?), for the sweep of genius from those halcyon days is very nearly complete. The old pianists seem far more individual and whimsical than today's players. Saint-Saens had a touch like Sonny Liston; Olga Samaroff, born Lucie Hicken-looper in Texas and once married to Stokowski, had all the percussive power of a butterfly...
...halcyon days of the middle 19th century, when there were no wars and the most burning issues were the price of corn and the rise of trade unions, Melbourne was able to make a career of wit and irony. He shocked his fellow politicians by his love of paradox, his itch to ridicule everything, including himself. "The stomach is the seat of health, strength, thought and life," he said, alluding to his fondness for food and drink. "If you have a bad habit, the best way to get out of it is to take your fill...
...fewer models than General Dynamics. Douglas has managed to keep its cost on the long-range DC-8 jet down to $292 million. But with 172 DC-8s sold and 146 delivered, a Douglas spokesman admits that "we're still developing the plane.'' Back in the halcyon piston days, it cost Douglas only $42 million to bring forth the profitable DC-6. In the last two years the DC-8 has hit Douglas with $53 million in losses after balancing the costs against profits from other divisions...
...project born of pique. For years the museum's founders-British-born Antique Dealer John Judkyn and Manhattan Psychiatrist Dallas Pratt-have been spending summers in Britain, and each year found the British as dense about the U.S. as the year before. In 1956 Pratt set up the Halcyon Foundation to endow a museum, and Judkyn found the site. It was Bath's Claverton Manor, designed by George IV's architect, Sir Jeffry Wyatville...