Word: harolds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BIRTHDAY PARTY, by Harold Pinter, is a comedy of terrors, tickling the funny bone with the feather of the absurd while scratching away at the skin with the razor edge of truth...
Plans to concoct a new money to supplement gold the dollar have been put forward by economists from Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson to the U.S.'s Robert Triffin. They call for some or most of the world's nations to create and regulate an international money that would be handled only by governments, not people. The first tentative steps toward that were taken at last fall's meeting of the 107-member International Monetary Fund. The IMF voted to create an Ersatzgold called "special drawing rights." There is one big hangup: these "S.D.R.s" will...
Prince Philip sent a telegram: "It was the best news I've heard." Prime Minister Harold Wilson added congratulations, and all three British political parties endorsed the girls' move. Britain's new poet laureate Cecil Day-Lewis (see following story) wrote a tribute. BBC-TV featured the girls on its major news program, and two London ad agencies bought full pages in the Times of London to hail their spirit. London's Financial Times praised the plan as a way to remedy Britain's economic weakness. A printing firm in Lincolnshire began turning...
...British pound on to devaluation and-once more with feeling-vetoed British entry into the Common Market. The most commonly accepted diagnosis of Gaullist behavior credits the general with an obsessive but essentially honorable devotion to la grandeur of France. Such a view is entirely too charitable, argues Harold Kaplan in an article in the current New Leader, entitled "The New Cold War." A Bennington College professor now on a year's leave in France, Kaplan presents an interesting and disturbing thesis: "The time has come to face French policy under De Gaulle for what it is-a destructive...
Accident by Joseph Losey. Like all things Harold Pinter touches, Accident smacks of ambiguity. It is at once a penetrating analysis of the university system, a story of acceptance of middle-age, its corresponding disillusionment, and like all of Pinter, simple and compelling storytelling. Theoretically Pinter's dialogue is perfect for motion pictures: the lines in themselves have little substance, and the meaning emerges gradually, thus providing a complement rather than a distraction to cinematic stylization. Pinter command of language, though, transcends Losey's sense of style, and Losey does not always get a firm grip on the subtle...