Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also become a feature attraction on NBC-TV's Today show, where, she says, "My criticism comes across more strongly than in print." Last March, she managed to pan three super-spectaculars in one brief appearance: The Greatest Story Ever Told ("A kind of dime-store holy picture"), Lord Jim ("A lot of heavy five-cent philosophy"), and The Sound of Music (she found the children "strictly loathsome...
...lacks wisdom." What the play has is wildness, chaos, raw youthful exuberance, an ardent desire to shock, and a compulsion to spew up nausea in the accents of lyric delirium. One line sets the tone of the play: "I see the world in a mellow light: it is the Lord God's excrement...
...York Drama Critics Circle called it the best drama of the year and the cast broke out champagne. That Saturday night the house grossed $4,800, largest ever. Last week it won the Pulitzer Prize, and between them the two awards have hypoed the box office 100%. "Good Lord," said one playgoer, "it's as if it just opened...
Those words of Lord Kelvin, the famous British physicist, are carved in stone above the entrance to the Detroit headquarters of American Motors Corp. American was certain that it had thought of a better way when it led the massive consumer shift to compact, economy cars in the late 1950s. It is less certain today. For the past two years, affluent consumers have been moving up to larger, more luxurious cars, and American's sales and profits have been steadily declining. Last week, after Detroit's Big Three had all reported record earnings in the first quarter...
...first names, nip off to Paris, Basel or London as a matter of routine and keep in constant touch by telephone, cable and personal visits. On a recent visit to Britain, William McChesney Martin Jr., chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, spent three hours tramping through the fields with Lord Cromer, the governor of the Bank of England, at his country home in Kent. "It makes a big difference," says Martin, "if you feel that you can call on a colleague in another country to get some advice...