Word: old
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Private Lives epitomizes these characteristics. It is 40 years old and as young as tomorrow evening. The present production is stylish, smart, and bubbles with frivolity. Coward creates the aura of anticipatory delight. Momentarily, one expects something scandalous to be said, something bizarre to be done, characters to be mesmerically drawn to each other and just as galvanically repulsed by each other. Just as F. Scott Fitzgerald threw iridescent parties in his novels, Coward has saturated his plays with the ambience of sophistication. One always seems to be slumming upwards at a Coward play, forever lingering on a moonlit terrace...
...Saturday Evening Post was the fact that the Curtis Publishing Co. had no magazines at all, while the Post's sister publications, Holiday and Jack and Jill, were the property of a corporate hybrid called the Saturday Evening Post Co. Last week some semblance of the good old days was restored when Curtis reacquired Jack and Jill and Holiday. Simultaneously, there came an echo of the era when kids could earn roller skates, baseball mitts and bikes by selling Post subscriptions. Henceforth, announced the November issue of Jack and Jill, kids who manage to talk their friends into buying...
Coward was the first laureate of the beautiful brittle people. Amanda (Tammy Grimes) and Elyot (Brian Bedford) had been married (tempestuously), then divorced (bitterly), and meet again with new spouses on a terrace (naturally) in the South of France. The old magic still works potently, and they "elope" together-self-acclaimed wicked imps of sin and guilt. Their shunned and stunned mates (Suzanne Grossmann and David Glover) discover that they are truly meant for each other and not for Elyot and Amanda...
...movement that Nader fostered goes by the awkward name of "consumerism." It belongs to an age of discontent that has roiled campuses and ghettos, subjected old certitudes to new doubts and stimulated individual assertiveness. Economist Walter Heller says: "People are much more questioning of authority, including the authority of the marketplace...
Unthinkable Rate. A strong case can be made that the Government is overdoing its credit tightness and that the time has come for a change. Last week, however, a Federal Reserve official said that the board is persisting with its year-old policies. Interest rates reached yet another new high when an issue of top-rated Bell Telephone System bonds sold at 9.1%. Such a rate would have been unthinkable not long ago. The U.S. may be entering an unprecedented, fairly prolonged period of high interest rates...