Word: rosier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story was familiar, at least in outline: Librettist Eric (Let's Make an Opera) Crozier had freely adapted his comic libretto from Guy de Maupassant's Le Rosier de Madame Husson. A bumpkin is chosen King of the May because in the village there is no girl virtuous enough to be Queen, eventually winds up on a roaring toot. To this, Composer Britten hitched a witty, somewhat Peter and the Wolf-ish score, in which each instrument seemed to portray (or mock) a character on stage. There were other Britten trademarks: well-fitting songs and exciting ensembles. Even...
...Manhattan last week, the cotton men reported on the first seven months of the selling drive. It was far rosier than expected. Monthly sales for 37-inch sheeting, the most widely used bagging, had more than doubled-to 6,370,000 yards. Far from satisfied, the cotton men hoped to reach the 15,550,000-yard mark for 37-inch sheeting before long, and have their market...
This staggering total actually means somewhat less than it seems when the effect of postwar price boosts is discounted (in 1939 dollars, it adds up to roughly $10 billion). But, in a reverse way, the price inflation also makes the picture look even rosier. By prompting the postponement of hundreds of building programs until costs go down, it disguises the real-and much greater-size of the nation's active potential to expand. It also testifies to the strength of the confidence on which present expansion is based: industrialists are pushing $1,000,000 projects with no less eagerness...
...Britten's first try at satirical comedy; his first two operas, Peter Grimes and The Rape of Lucretia (TIME, June 9), were both dark and tragic. For the new opera, Albert Herring, Librettist Eric Crozier did a slapstick adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's cynical Le Rosier de Mme. Husson, in which an innocent village bumpkin goes off on a wild, sinful night after being chosen King of the May. Britten scored it for chamber orchestra in his familiar brittle, witty and forcefully dissonant style...
...showers and Turkish baths, cheek by jowl with pink-jowled President William S. Jack, got free insurance and Florida vacations. Out of their sky-high wages ($5,000 a year and up) they gratefully sank $15,000,000 in preferred stock in Jahco to finance a still rosier postwar future. But peace and cutbacks brought trouble to this production paradise. By last week Jahco's eight plants, two still owned by the Defense Plant Corp., were shut down. All of the associates, except clerical help, were laid off indefinitely. There was no sign of reconversion...