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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Burke said that the Office of Student Employment is still trying to revive the Eliot House concession, which has consistently "approached" a profit in recent years. The reason for the relative durability of Eliot stands in the past has been the House's distance from the Square and its "particular clientele," he suggested...
...Stoops to Conquer to melodramas such as The Brigands of Lodi and The Dead Shot. Famed Actress Fanny Kemble appeared at the Varieties as Mrs. Malaprop in The Rivals, but was so disturbed by the closeness of the audience that she never returned. Rarely used in recent years, the little theater, with its gilt chairs, roll-down curtain (a Nile landscape) and flaming torches, seemed an ideal setting for Rameau's wispily amusing farce about an old-maidish nymph in frantic pursuit of Jupiter's favors...
...close to 50 when he finished the work and past 60 before he found an audience that could appreciate it. In its only U.S. production-during the 1924-25 Metropolitan Opera season, three years before Janacek's death-Jenufa (pronounced Yen-uffa) was roundly panned. In recent years, European opera houses have been looking at Jenufa with fresh admiration, and last week Chicago's Lyric Opera followed suit, gave the work its first U.S. performance in 35 years...
...annual rate of 3.6%, a rate of growth that if sustained would double U.S. production in 22 years. This increase compares with an average rise of 2.9% for the 1909-57 period. Using 1954 dollars, the C.E.D. got a result substantially different from the Council of Economic Advisers' recent report that the G.N.P. rate in the third quarter of 1959 was $481 billion. In the C.E.D.'s 1954 dollars it was only $431 billion...
...C.E.D., venturing in, divided the real G.N.P. by the total production force, computed a 1929-57 productivity trend line showing an average 1.6% rise. The difference between a 1.3% labor-force rise and a 1.6% productivity rise, said C.E.D., produced "well over half of the growth in production in recent decades." In 1959 output per man is 60% greater than in 1929 despite shorter hours...