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Word: peakes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bear-hugging mothers, with Tennessee Williams-type drama or the P.T.A., there were happy surprises. In fact, by combining the last two themes-by having Elaine act as P.T.A. chairman for an evening of Art and Mike act as the Southern playwright speaker-they reached the evening's peak. They reached it partly, perhaps, because each did a monologue in his own uninterrupted, unblurred style. When the two play together, things occasionally run together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Recital on Broadway, Oct. 24, 1960 | 10/24/1960 | See Source »

...interesting use of the stage. Stephen Aaron, director, has employed the apron stage with the audience ranged around three sides; and he has designed a performance that is becoming to the play and platform. Todd Lee's setting consists of levels, shapes and areas that culminate in a round peak against a glowing cyclorama; and Walter Benson's lighting plot is superb, indicating the range and richness of the electrical equipment. No doubt it will be years before the staff learns to use the full potential of the new theatre. The staff has begun by reminding us that its technical...

Author: By Brooks Atkinson, | Title: Troilus and Cressida | 10/17/1960 | See Source »

...quite possible that my longtime love for the home-town paper and Mr. Block's longtime production of wordless strokes of genius have something to do with it, but I cannot refrain from saying that your cover of Oct. 3 is a new peak, your finest! The figure of Castro alone says more than all the words of Sartre recently reported by TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 17, 1960 | 10/17/1960 | See Source »

...owns only eleven jets), will be able to buy outright its whole jet fleet, which by the end of the year will total 43 planes. The loan total is only slightly more than the profit Hughes could have made by selling his TWA stock at its postwar market peak of 72. Its price at last week's closing: 12⅝ up 1¼ on the news of Hughes's financing deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: New Crew for TWA | 10/17/1960 | See Source »

...January of this year, was at the same level as December 1958. But some stocks, such as food and drugs, which face a bright future in an expanding population, are still in a lusty bull market, are well above the levels reached when the industrial average reached its peak (see chart). For other stocks, a bear market has existed for as long as four years, and they have dropped much farther than the average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: What Breed of Animal? | 10/10/1960 | See Source »

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