Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the success stories, doctoring is often not enough. Composer Jule Styne believes that great hits-My Fair Lady, Oklahoma!, Fiddler on the Roof, A Chorus Line-were great from the start and only needed polishing. "Ninety percent of plays that call in a new writer and director fail," says Styne. "Sometimes the best you can do is to convince them to close," adds Joseph Stein, who wrote Fiddler on the Roof and has doctored such plays as Irene and Raisin. "If you're lucky, the show will be mediocre...
...work fast and pull all-nighters in hotel rooms. A good one knows how to eliminate a character, take out a scene, adjust a set. Says Stein: "You need a sixth sense, a feeling for where the show dips." The doctor's bill partly depends upon his success in salvaging the show. There is usually a flat fee, ranging from about $10,000 to $30,000 for five or six weeks' work, and often a percentage of the show's revenues...
...world's second largest automaking company. Boston University recognized this last week by making Harvard business school Graduate Caldwell an honorary doctor of laws. The citation sounded more like a Ford brochure: lauding Caldwell as an eloquent spokesman for the free enterprise system, it also stressed his success at selling Ford trucks and bringing the Fiesta minicar to market...
Americans are a people capable of extraordinary ingenuity and unexpected self-discipline when they come up hard against something they see as a real emergency. When California's Marin County was confronted with a drought two years ago, for example, residents shared the burden of sacrifice with remarkable success, revising their life-styles to accommodate the need. But Americans are also a breathtakingly forgetful people who are simply not moved to change their lives very much in consideration of the long range...
...sifted through the questions of their priorities. They want energy without risk. They may be a long time in settling the question of what price they are willing to pay for their power. Americans historically have believed that they can have it both ways - indeed, every way. Their success was erected upon a profligate exuberance...