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...Britain's dollar export drive] is so crucial . . . that the Treasury is leaving no stone unturned, not even that of encouraging private enterprise. Even if this be regarded as a change in planning technique, rather than a true retreat from planning, it means a greener light and a rosier prospect for the British businessman than he has had since before...
...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...