Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Public Warning. Success has won Opus many enemies. It is attacked by old-guard Falangists as "liberal," by campus radicals as "reactionary," by labor leaders as an "economic elite." It is often accused of plotting to seize power after Franco dies, and Fray Justo Pérez de Urbel, abbot of the Benedictine monastery at Franco's Valley of the Fallen civil-war monument, recently warned it in a newspaper article to stop "playing politics...
Based on a long-running Paris and London stage success that crash-landed on Broadway last year, Boeing limps along on the premise that broad French farce means a farce about broads in France. Curtis, faced by a crisis when a new line of jets with extra thrust brings all his airchicks to earth at once, sweats over a role that only suavity could save. He inevitably brings to mind the rather blunt question that one might ask about a fortyish satyr-about-town: not how he does it, but why. As a colleague who drops by to ogle Curtis...
Color & Curiosity. After World War II, as suburban shopping centers appeared throughout the U.S., catalogue sales slumped badly. But the shopping centers in a sense have become a victim of their own success: they are congested. Thus, taking advantage of what they term "the convenience factor," catalogue companies today emphasize telephone shopping. Sears maintains 58 catalogue switchboards around the nation, keeps the busiest of them open on a round-the-clock basis. Credit purchasing has been added to catalogues, and deliveries have been speeded up. Catalogue prices run 4% under those of retail stores because of savings in sales forces...
...board cameras were torn loose and wrecked. From the one camera left, Princeton Astronomer Donald Morton was able to recover only three frames of exposed film -and two of those were unusable. But that final frame turned the whole experiment into a resounding success. Last week, after careful analysis of the spectral lines recorded on his film, Morton was able to offer exciting new evidence toward the solution of an old astronomical enigma: Why are there so many white dwarf stars in the sky when there have been so few of the supernova explosions that are believed to produce them...
...forms a kind of epistolatory biography, covering Shaw's life from the age of 17, when he was a Dublin real estate agent's clerk ("in a decaying green coat, cuffs trimmed with the scissors"), to the age of 41, on the eve of his first great success, which came with the production of Candida. In those intervening years, he migrated to London to join his mother (who gave music lessons to support him and his sisters), wrote novels that earned him almost nothing, and finally became an established music and drama critic...