Word: reals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Charles de Gaulle. Now, without his formidable non, talk of devaluation of the Continent's weakest currency has assumed a new tone of inevitability. Even the West Germans seem ready to assist in a broader change of currencies by increasing the value of the robust mark. The only real question in France is when and how much...
...change in parity is almost assured by the vivid contrast between the mighty West German economy and the inflationprone French economy-menaced by excessive wage demands while handicapped by obsolete plants and an unfortunately anemic capital market. German Economics Minister Karl Schiller had hoped that his country's real growth would slow to 4.5% this year, but has lately conceded that it will run about...
Once upon a time, there was a boy named Billy Wood. His family, which lived in Tuxedo Park, N.Y., was well off but not royally so. His cousin, though, was a real prince - Frederick Henry Prince. He reigned over a mighty empire called Armour, which had grown rich from slaughtering and selling fattened beasts...
...possibly the first copyist in the world with painter's block. But when he finally does manage to complete a counterfeit of Titian's Venus of Urbino, he likes the fake so much that he steals it back from the thieves in preference to the real thing. Skillfully Malamud somehow turns this gesture into a superbly comic act of integrity...
...fifties movies, are not the first time installed in the flesh of a Harvard play. Others with similar concerns have for all their efforts wrought neither more nor less than soap opera. But Mr. Bloch knows how to put dialogue together, not so that his characters sound like real people--God forbid--but so they sound, at best, like prize people. I think twice when one character asks hi sister, "Why did you let him touch you?" and she replies, "Why do people go to museums? Women don't make decisions like that." In my limited experience, it is precisely...