Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thanks to this sort of showmanship, The Who's recent 30-city U.S. tour was-well, a smashing success. But the display, as Peter Townshend admits, "is an act, and it really is meaningless." It is also troublesome, since it requires them constantly to prowl the pawnshops in search of cheap replacements for broken instruments. "We started using it," says Townshend, "as a lever to get the audiences to come, and then, we hoped, dig the rest of the music." Now the audiences are coming. The Who rank close behind the Beatles and the Rolling Stones...
...sense, the airlines have been buffeted by their own success. Airline revenues have more than tripled during the past decade, and the industry expects to transport 300 million passen gers a year on domestic flights by 1975, compared with 125 million last year. Gearing themselves to the crush of expected business, most major carriers have been busily adding new flights to their schedules and laying out huge sums for stretched jet transports, jum bo jets and supersonic aircraft. In the process, they have found themselves trapped in an ever worsening cost-profit squeeze...
...reason for Utah's success is stable management. Seven of the company's twelve directors are descendants of the industrious builders and bankers who founded the company in Ogden, Utah. Among the seven are Littlefield and onetime Federal Reserve Chairman Marriner S. Eccles, who has been Utah's chairman since 1940 but, after turning 78 last week, now calls himself "a part-time operator...
...American Empire, French Historian Amaury de Riencourt (The Coming Caesars) takes up the subject once again. De Riencourt specializes in sweeping, Toynbee-like historical patterns, especially symmetrical parallels between the Roman past and the American present. He has the indispensable arrogance of a born generalizer who, with mixed success, has assigned himself such breathtaking abstractions as The Soul of China and The Soul of India. For what he lacks in formal scholarship, he nearly makes up in sheer dogmatic confidence...
Montreal's Leonard Cohen appears to be drifting toward the vortex of popular success. His 1966 novel, Beautiful Losers, a hallucinogenic potion of Iroquois history and art-as-psychosis, has a sizable readership among college students and literate dropouts. Cohen has been documented on an educational television film and interviewed on CBS. His recent move into folk-rock composing and singing has not gone unnoticed either. His song Suzanne, a sweetly eerie and rather self-conscious effort to be both sublimely sacred and sublimely profane, has been recorded by a number of modern minnesingers. His dark brand of sentimentality...