Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been little damaged by open hostility or subtle ridicule, by intellectual snobbery or the distractions of TV, by war or revolution (these only furnished a chance for duets at the foot of the guillotine). For decades, Americans regarded opera more or less as the folk music of the rich-or, as Cleveland Amory put it, it was "like a husband with a foreign title: expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge." Today Americans in vast numbers support- and understand-opera. The U.S. has more than 700 opera companies, nearly half of them at colleges...
...Very Rich Woman has ague in its funny bones. Actress-Playwright Ruth Gordon has tried to create a drawing-room comedy about old age-and the chief reason that the play cannot sustain itself is that old age is no joke...
...Ruth Gordon had not made Mrs. Lord just as odious as her Goneril-and-Regan duo of daughters. As every contemporary playgoer knows, the family is an heir-conditioning unit: bitches beget bitches. The denouement is embarrassing, as Mrs. Lord marries one of those beamish Balkan boys with a rich grandmother fixation...
...gain, well below the 9% gain of January and February and the 8% gain of July-but merchants feel relieved that the advances have continued. Across the U.S., one big department store after another is reporting sales gains over last year: up 15% for Atlanta's Rich's, 18% for San Francisco's Gump's, 6% for Dallas' Neiman-Marcus, and 5% for New York's Gimbels (despite the newspaper strike). Even more significant than the figures is the attitude of shoppers. "Figures aren't our guiding light," says President Bernard Sakowitz...
Despite these digs, the Europeans generally moved toward accepting Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler's call for urgent talks on reform, which perhaps will lead to creation of an international currency to supplement dollars, pounds and gold (TIME cover, Sept. 10). The rich nations in the so-called Group of Ten instructed their Deputy Finance Ministers to start negotiating now on "an intensified basis." Though the continentals had hoped to restrict the talks to the clubby Ten, they now seem to agree that, at some time in the near future, the 30-nation IMF executive board should be brought...