Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...real question is whether Carter and the Federal Reserve will stick to a policy of high interest rates, slower money-supply growth and tight budget restraints when the economy slows significantly and unemployment begins to rise. That goes against Carter's instincts as a populist. Even in his Stage II speech he could not bring himself to say anything about money supply, and some of his politically sensitive advisers wanted to include in that talk a promise of lower interest rates; they were dissuaded only after a drawn-out fight...
...jobs that provide no useful training for employment in the private economy. None theless, CETA cuts would anger blacks, who regard the program as of potential benefit to ghetto youths, and organized labor, which already is very unhappy with Carter. Last week AFL-CIO President George Meany denounced the Stage II wage-price guidelines as unfair and demanded a special session of Congress to establish mandatory controls. He also took a swing at the dollar-rescue program, contending that higher interest rates would hurt workers. The President's cold response, delivered by telephone to a forum in St. Louis...
...supposed to report to parliament in three weeks. Even John Vorster's name has been mentioned in the scandal; Luyt told Mostert that he agreed to start the Citizen only because he was led to believe that Vorster had personally selected him for the job At one stage in the press inquiry into the scandal, a crusading editor received a message that allegedly came from the former Prime Minister himself. "Tell him to lay off," the word was passed, "or he'll have to deal with...
...Enter, stage right, A.L. Rowse. "If it is something about Elizabethen Age, you would do well to ask me" the retired Oxford don once wrote to a critic, and he was right. Volume after volume has testified to Rowse's intimacy with the 17th century. No sexual custom, no oddity of language or quirk of lore seems to have escaped his attention. Now he displays his wit and erudition in an extravagant three-volume work that has no precedent and is not likely to have successors. The Annotated Shakespeare has no restrictions; it suits the actor and the scholar...
Perhaps celebrity is bad for the talent. In any case, Panama is fairly minor McGuane. In his tale, Chester Hunnicutt Pomeroy is an overnight American superstar rapidly descending to the white-dwarf stage. His act, something along the lines of Alice Cooper's, only more so, included a routine in which he crawled out of an elephant's behind and dueled with a baseball pitching machine. Now, his brainpan made porous by drugs, Pomeroy has withdrawn to Key West, where he maniacally stalks his old love Catherine. A man with a lot less charm or interest than...