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...best, and time has made the resulting camouflage and persiflage dimly dispiriting. In 1936, Russia was remotely terrible but not dangerous, still exotic enough for period romance and period humor, attitudes no 1963 playgoer can sustain. Tovarich needed a boldly inventive face lifting, but its book and lyrics sadly sag. Its tune-shy music may please any metronomes in the audience. Sample wit: "Let's go down to the kitchen and get a potato and make our own vodka." Sample lyric...
...Crimson statistics stagger the imagination, boggle the mind, and sag the jaw in almost any department you can name. Razzle-dazzle artist Richard Baldwin Ruge has amassed an unbelievable rushing average of 15.4 yards per carry; quarterback Frederic L. Ballard can pass that buck like no one else in the business; fullback Chollie Bevard, in Russin's own words, will always "catch you off guard"; and linemen Robert "Speed" Gordon, Richard "King" Cotton, Raymond "The Sage" Sokolov, Andrew "The Rock" Weil and Lee "Flash" Auspitz are just, well, Some Of The Greats...
...many-volumed histories that caused much of the sag in Victorian bookshelves have largely disappeared, but at least one U.S. historian still prefers to see his craft write large. He is Yale University's Kenneth Scott Latourette, 78, a precise, untiring Baptist minister, who has just overseen the publication of his 568-page The Twentieth Century Outside Europe (Harper & Row: $8.50), the fifth and final volume of a series entitled Christianity in a Revolutionary...
...lower prices they are paying for materials to fatten skimpy profit margins or to help offset the upcreeping costs of research, transportation and labor. But it is not good news in the judgment of President Kennedy's favorite economist, Paul Samuelson of M.I.T. Says he: "If prices sag when we have high employment, full-capacity production and good profit margins-that's good. But if prices sag because profit margins are lousy, excess capacity is widespread, and there's too little demand to keep at least 96% of our workers working-that's bad." By that...
Many of those who have rented apartments for as much as $100 a room and up in Manhattan's shiniest new apartment buildings have gained in gadgets-built-in air conditioning, modern kitchens, washers and dryers-but they have lost elsewhere. Walls are often paper-thin, floors sag, fireplaces are nonexistent, ceilings low and rents high...