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...Davos forum was started in 1971 by Klaus Schwab, a Harvard-educated management expert...
...Schwab's goal was to teach American management methods to Europeans. Now the forum mainly brings business and political leaders together to discuss the key issues of the day in a relaxed atmosphere...
...Schwab has been able to get luminaries to go to Davos, for which they receive generous speaking fees plus expenses. Last year former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger used the Davos podium to warn against a Soviet arms buildup, and in 1979 French Premier Raymond Barre gloomily predicted that Western Europe's lack of energy and raw materials would condemn it to dangerous dependence on the Middle East and other areas...
With Dale at the hub, circus hoopla makes the evening spin. There are juggling acts, clown acts, acrobats, tumblers, a baton-twirling whiz (Sophie Schwab) and a marching band that goes swirling into the aisles. David Mitchell's set, festooned with primary colors, is a child's dream of the Big Top. While Michael Stewart has written prosaic nuts-and-bolts lyrics, Cy Coleman's music has a hang-gliding lift to it, and one lovely ballad, The Colors of My Life, will probably take off for a life of its own. As for Joe Layton...
...finishing a movie is a mere fever chart. The journey of another kind of odd couple dramatizes, poignantly and wittily, Elizabeth Hardwick's observation that performers tend to lead their lives "gregariously and without affections." There are lots of gorgeous scenes, including an incident of status panic in Schwab's drugstore with a lunchtime crowd of actors desperately vying with one another for the attention of a powerful producer, and a party where a White House staffer learns how power politics works when it leaves D.C. for L.A. Carpenter does these set pieces so well that he sometimes...