Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This progress comes with a peak in the South's industrial revolution which did not actually begin until World War II. The rapid transformation of the South's agrarian economy the technological progress which constantly improves the industrial effort, and the economic mobility of the whole nation, repeatedly multiplies the power and the determination of Southern business interests...
...held by the Newspaper Guild, biggest (8,500 New York members) but weakest of the ten newspaper unions. That date is one of the Guild's few real power levers: it comes just a few days before national, state and local elections, when readership interest is at a peak; moreover, it marks the beginning of the Christmas advertising season, when publishers earn a hefty 25% of their yearly income. In trying to move in on the Guild's date, Powers is plainly trying to undercut his fellow union. And it speaks for the haplessness of the Guild that...
...Know What's Coming Off Next, a play that unfortunately contained its entire essence in the title and was never professionally produced. But now Kopit has prepared a new script for production next month off-Broadway, and Dad-wise he is only half a dozen picas off the peak. The new play, scheduled to go into Greenwich Village's Theatre de Lys, is called Asylum or What the Gentlemen Are Up To Not to Mention the Ladies...
Almost the only way of telling one Swiss Alp from another is by the celebrities who choose to schuss its slopes by day and carouse, après-ski, in the little town huddled at its base. If the sporty figure sipping a spot of Pernod at the peak is Aristotle Onassis and the lady sitting it out at the bottom is Elsa Maxwell, then the site is St. Moritz. If the set is peopled by a slightly showier crowd, among them players such as Audrey Hepburn, Mel Ferrer and Deborah Kerr, it is Klosters. And if the Greek fellow...
...Europe on three different fellowships, the young American composer Benjamin Lees was fast approaching the day when he would become a public trust. He labored quietly over his compositions, as first Guggenheim, then Copley, then Fulbright supported him. He wrote a symphony and some chamber music, but the peak of his abstraction came in 1958, when he spent eight months writing a violin concerto. Lacking a virtuoso to play it, he stuffed it away in a steamer trunk...