Word: shrewdness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Little Lebanon, an oasis of stability and old-fashioned economic freedom in the impoverished and riotous Middle East, prospers not only by trade but as a money market. In less than two decades, its bustling capital of Beirut has grown into the world's newest financial center, the shrewd regional banker to everybody from wealthy Arab sheiks to huge U.S. oil companies. Last week, in a crisis that shook the country's fiscal structure to the bottom of its vaults, Lebanon was forced to shut its 93 banks for three days...
...SOLD 4,000,000 copies, backed his investment with a wad that less than a century ago would have bought the island the picture is named after. For $14,000,000 he got Panavision, Color by Deluxe, top-chop talent (Julie Andrews, Max von Sydow, Richard Harris), two shrewd scripters (Dalton Trumbo and Daniel Taradash), and a director (George Roy Hill) whose dependability is warm milk to any producer's ulcer...
...situation invites land speculation. Harvard Square now beckons the shrewd investor because many areas near the Square are "under-used": there are now gas stations or small stores where there could be high rise commercial buildings. The presence of the Kennedy Library will add to the Square's natural attractiveness. The consequences could be disastrous: uncontrolled commercial development, with investors straining at zoning restrictions and constructing huge buildings to recoup their initial outlay...
...Fairness & Equality." For all his civic zeal and his personal flair for the good life on a 200-acre Connecticut estate and at his Florida mansion, Gimbel was more than anything else a shrewd merchant. He was hardly out of the University of Pennsylvania and into the Philadelphia Gimbels store before he was pushing drastic changes on his father and six uncles. The family business had started in Vincennes, Ind., in 1842. The Gimbel brothers built bigger stores in Milwaukee and Philadelphia, but "Bernie" insisted that they move to New York, where the real action was. He picked...
...absurd in their inflexibility, are also elegiac in their ineffectuality. Jessica Tandy plays an aristocratic Ranevskaya, as flowery as her beloved orchard and just as fruitless. As the arriviste, Lee Richardson is believably ambivalent as he reluctantly reaps triumph over his former employers. Hume Cronyn, however, sounds too nasally shrewd to be the bumbling clerk...