Word: magical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...breathes hate, weeps desire." The Times catalogued her as "a fully-fledged, Swinburnian femme fatale." Wrote the Daily Mail's Robert Muller: "The performance will wipe the smirk off the faces of those who scoff at the school of psychological interpretation known as the Method. It is theatrical magic...
Khrushchev's own manners were no help. At a special performance of The Magic Flute by the Vienna State Opera, he dozed off to sleep, an amazing affront to opera-loving Viennese. And next day, when Communist-led workers in an automobile factory gave him the warmest reception of the trip, Nikita turned beaming braggart. "I am like the merchant who comes to the market with a bag full of goods," he said. "I can say to all of you: Wrap up all your goods and send them to us. We can buy all of Austria." Nikita was just...
...Vivacious Arlene Francis (who is also author of a new book, That Certain Something: The Magic of Charm) explained another sharp edge of New York in a New York Post interview last week: she was denied the chance to buy another cooperative apartment because "they discovered that I was married to a Jew, and therefore the apartment was unavailable...
...wrote speedily-his editors noted that his manuscripts were scarcely ever blotted-and turned out an average of two plays a year. Plots to Shakespeare were like pots to Merlin: any borrowed tub, from Holinshed's Chronicles to Plutarch's Lives, would do to mix the magic in. One of the intellectuals of the day, Robert Greene, addressing his university-trained colleagues, Nashe, Peele and Marlowe, sneered at the "upstart crow, beautified with our feathers." But Londoners worshiped...
...this week, Government economists felt better about the continued growth of the U.S. economy. In the April to June period, they estimated that the gross national product rose to an annual rate of $505 billion, $5 billion more than the first quarter, when the economy at last hit the magic half-trillion mark. The Administration's economic experts expect the G.N.P. to move up to $510 or $512 billion in the third quarter, to $520 billion in the fourth quarter. While this would be below the wild-blueyonder January estimates of some forecasters, the G.N.P. would average...