Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ritz) got his start at the Manhattan Theater Club. So did Mark Medoff (The Wager, When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?). It was New Haven's Long Wharf Theater that introduced the best young British playwrights. Sam Shepard, perhaps the most promising young playwright, had his first success, The Tooth of Crime, at Princeton's McCarter Theater. Joe Papp is right when he says, "When you talk about good times in the theater, you are talking about business being good. There are never really up times if you are serious, because the theater must fight tradition constantly...
...major categories except autos. Car sales, which have been skidding since the end of the rebate campaigns, dropped 29% below the year-ago level during the first ten days of April. Nonetheless, auto production is rising, and many furloughed workers have been recalled because of the industry's success in working down its inventory of unsold cars. Economists expect that the checks from the $8.1 billion tax rebate, which will begin to reach consumers within a few weeks, will put new strength into retail sales...
...issue. As a sweetener, the proposal also offered to consider subjects of interest to the developing countries such as industrialization and the transfer of technology. European and American diplomats fully expected that the offer would break the deadlock, and some of them were making premature announcements about the success of the conference...
Pixilated Idyl. Those who thought that success would spoil Exley's romance with failure underestimated his capacity for masochism. In Pages from a Cold Island, he comes up with a new hero to feel dwarfed beside. No mere football star, either. This time he has chosen the century's pre-eminent American critic and man of letters, Edmund Wilson. Once he creeps into Wilson's shadow, Exley happily sets off on another binge of literary self-deprecation...
Along the way, he swiftly tries to demolish or denigrate the success of A Fan's Notes, which got splendid reviews, sold respectably, and won some literary awards. For a while, Exley garnered fan notes of his own, as well as lecture invitations and a chance to hobnob with the likes of Norman Mailer and Saul...