Word: takings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...labor unrest. Without mentioning Seguy by name, Pompidou responded with noticeable speed-and anger. He was convinced, he told his Cabinet last week, that workers "will not be duped and will not let themselves be drawn into irrelevant or violent actions." In any case, he warned, the government would take every step to ensure "republican order is maintained...
...Bombay-born Zubin Mehta, music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and a regular conductor at the Met, last week scornfully characterized the negotiations as an "Oriental-bazaar style of bargaining." Bing speaks openly of the "sheer demagoguery" of his adversaries, and is furious that they don't take pity on the Met's general economic plight. They, in turn, blame management for locking them out of summer rehearsals and blocking their claims for unemployment benefits while contracts are being negotiated...
...have a proprietary interest in government-supported BOAC. "A bunny club airline," groused Peter Bessell, a Liberal from Cornwall. "BOAC says such a project will earn dollars for Britain, but some might argue that prostitution does the same thing." Kenneth Lewis, a Conservative from Rutland and Stamford, threatened to take the matter before the House of Commons and treat it as an affront to British maidenhood. "A British girl," he thundered, "is perfectly capable of making her own dates-and so are American men." The Sunday Times chided: "There are visions of the flower of English womanhood being sold into...
...with reason. At the present time the U.S. theater is in a drastic dual crisis. The obvious one is money. In 1956, My Fair Lady was put on for $400,000; last May Dear World lost its backers upwards of $750,000. The theater's angels, who customarily take their temperatures with a Dow-Jones thermometer, feel distinctly chilly after a sustained stock-market decline. The result is that while 33 new plays and 45 musicals have been announced for the season, only seven plays and four musicals are definitely scheduled to open between now and Jan. 1. Indeed...
Under such categories as "Loosely Based On" and "Freely Adapted From," Broadway goes on musically robbing Peter to pay Paul. Alice will take Lewis Carroll's little girl on a drug trip. Cherry sets William Inge's Bus Stop to music, and Yellow Drum, based on Truman Capote's The Grass Harp, reiterates Broadway's faith that a weak play sounds better set to music. Robert Shaw will star in the hymnbook version of Elmer Gantry, Sinclair Lewis' novel about a corrupt evangelist. Fellini's film La Strada is being unspooled...