Word: swiftness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eurodollars, American industry can expand abroad without adding to the nation's troublesome balance-of-payments deficit. To do so, of course, even blue-chip firms must pay Europe's soaring interest rates, which lately have gone to 6½% to 7%. The climb has been so swift, in fact, that at least nine of the last 24 U.S. corporate issues were selling below their offering price last week. Among Continental underwriters, the current morose joke goes: "Playing the bond market is no longer speculation because you're bound to lose...
...about modern literature. I didn't want to use all my energies explaining dramatic techniques rather than doing them." He switched to Anglo-Saxon thesis work after abandoning an 18th Century project. "I was supposed to edit the papers of an 18th Century Earl who was a friend of Swift and Pope. But they usually consisted of 'I dined with Mr. Pope and Dean Swift last night. I was in my usual good form.' Absolutely nothing about Swift...
Anastasia Kucharski '68 and Eleanor B. Swift '67 will be RGA representatives. And Gary D. Bergthold, a student in the Graduate School of Education, and Peter Geselle will be Peace Corps delegates. Bergthold and Geselle have already served in the Peace Corps. The board will soon choose its final member--another faculty representative, Mrs. Bunting reported. The program will be called "Education for Action...
...spills and thrills on the freeways of biological maturity. Producer Marshal Backlar, 30, and Writer-Director Noel Black, 28, thus establish themselves as novice moviemakers who seem happily unafraid of going their own way. They resolutely tackle a minor theme and polish it to professional perfection-a swift, sensitive and funny celebration of a small universal truth. Succinct as poetry, Skaterdater simply happens like a green spring morning; it is the lyric cinematic equivalent of light verse...
...touch in these books is as light as Ronald Firbank's, but unlike that airy Edwardian, Waugh displays feelings that are as savage as Swift's; and in Black Mischief (1932), a hilarious and still timely tale of emerging Africa and declining England, his feelings find blackly humorous expression: the British hero, inquiring after his British sweetheart in an African town, is cheerfully informed that she was the principal ingredient in the stew he has just eaten...