Word: main
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first time in several years, a Loeb main stage performance had to be stopped before the final curtain Friday...
Last week the Times belatedly followed the lead of the rest of the British press. It relegated the ads to page 2 and replaced them with any newspaper's main offering: the news. Disconcerted by the front-page switch from solid blocks of type to a reasonably sprightly makeup, a Times editorial writer commented: "It's like seeing a very old lady take off all her clothes and put on a miniskirt...
Speaking to a group of Polish Americans, President Johnson noted last week that some Communist countries are beginning to appreciate the value of the main motive force of the capitalist economy: profits. "In Eastern Europe," said he, "profits are coming to be understood as a better measure of productivity." Almost as the President was speaking, his top economist, Gardner Ackley, was publicly faulting U.S. corporate profits. Indeed, much of the current nervousness in the stock market and most of the worry among businessmen stem from fear that whatever the Administration does to fight inflation-through taxes, credit policy or controls...
...Brien's anarchic foray against the foolishness of fact begins with a university student who is trying to write a realistic novel between courses at the National University. It is a glum, pompously polysyllabic work which gets out of hand because the main character is Dermot Trellis, described as "an eccentric author," a publican who has "conceived the project of writing a salutary book on the consequences that follow wrongdoing." Trellis' characters, in turn, include Fergus MacPhellimey, a "pooka," which is some sort of leprechaun, and John Furriskey, whose task it is to attack women and behave...
Harvard's main strength lies on the track Anderson and Ram Robinson with Brown's Win Anakawa and two Navy runners are the class of the sprint field. Jeff Huvelle is among a pack of quarter-milers who have turned in times in the vicinity of 48.5, and Dave McKeivey might also get a place in the 440. An enigma in the shorter races in Cornell's Bill Bruckel, who could win any two of the three, and might even try to triple...