Word: sluggishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the new season getting off to a sluggish start several holdovers of distinction still dominate the Broadway scene. The New York Drama Critics Circle's best-foreign-play prizewinner, A Man for All Seasons, probes the mind, heart and faith of Sir Thomas More, who chose to lose his life rather than his soul. Emlyn Williams portrays the hero-martyr. A Thousand Clowns, freshly and resourcefully comic, stars Jason Robards Jr. as a man who tries to grope his way out of groupthink toward the good life. Barbara Bel Geddes delivers Jean Kerr's subcutaneous witticisms with...
...sluggish economy, a series of by-election setbacks, and last summer's ministerial massacre had undermined public confidence in the government and caused Macmillan's popularity to plunge to new lows in the public-opinion polls. Committed though he was to British entry into the Common Market, his leadership seemed to be faltering. There were alarmed predictions that rising antiMarket sentiment would split the party. In this atmosphere of fretful uncertainty, the Tories met for their annual party conference in the Welsh resort of Llandudno -and ringingly endorsed both the Common Market and Harold Macmillan...
...last week offered fewer panaceas and more constructive policies than either majority party usually adopts at its conferences. Under black, orange and white banners proclaiming TAKE BRITAIN AHEAD, delegates listened earnestly to well-researched proposals for liberalizing Britain's class-ridden educational system, for stepping up its sluggish economy and broadening the base of society (2% of Britain's adult population still owns 46% of all personal wealth). Delegates jabbed repeatedly at the spiritual and material lags of the affluent society. "We need," said Liberal Candidate Harold Haigh, "less self and more self-denial...
...Francis of Assisi or Paul of Tarsus. Elected to the chair of St. Peter in 1846. Pius IX started out as one of the most liberal-minded Popes in centuries. He granted amnesty to political prisoners jailed during the reign of his predecessor, tried to clean up the corrupt, sluggish government of the Papal States. To the surprise of Europe's statesmen, he even seemed sympathetic to the ideals of Italian nationalism, and for a while worked actively to unite Italy's assortment of kingdoms and principalities into a federation...
...economy may be sluggish, but not in Denver, where the influx of tourists and Titan missile contracts has helped to boost the value of new construction by 90% this year. The sun also shines on Hawaii, where tourism is up 19%. In Nevada, personal income is running 13% higher than last year's levels. The gaps in the New England economy, left by the wholesale departure of the textile industry, are being filled by electronics. Personal income in the area is up almost 7% from a year...