Word: sourly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spinster munching sour grapes. In the land of the rising woman, where a husband used to control his yen, millions of wives are buying stock by cutting corners and snipping off a larger hunk of the family pay envelope. As a result, Japan is having its biggest investment boom in history. This year 9,000,000 shareholders will invest $5.5 billion v. $4 billion last year; investment trusts have increased 50%, and savings accounts have risen 20% to $17 billion...
...Sweet & Sour Notes...
...Sweet & Sour Polka. In Peking, Radio Peking announced a new song hit in Red China: The Community Dining Hall Is Too Good to Tell...
...have been allowed to accept the prize. Last week the Nobel Prize for Physics went to three Soviet scientists, and Russia greeted the news with joy. The winners were allowed to accept the prize (see SCIENCE). But the Russian insults to neutral Sweden for rewarding Pasternak had left a sour taste in the mouths of the 15 Nobel judges (among them: U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold). They had honored Pasternak not because he was anti-Communist but because they considered him a great poet...
...Throat. There is no denying the greater variety of Callas' fantastic repertory (although Tebaldi actually claims 36 operas in hers), or her immense superiority as an actress. But if Callas indeed has a champagne voice, it is also true that champagne can all too easily go sour-as many an operagoer can testify who has heard Callas on an off night. Tebaldi, perhaps because she attempts less, rarely sings an unpalatable note...