Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other. It is simply because they need less help, and have a better chance of having their needs met in the market. All builders or owners of private housing, at whatever rent levels, must also recognize that under no conditions is there any justification for taking advantage of the tight market to make excessive profits by capitalizing on the need of all our citizens for a home...
Bleeding in the Markets. Worried about tight money and the economy's future, investors continued to unload stocks last week. The Dow Jones industrial average declined another 19 points to 876. Since it reached the year's high of 969 in mid-May, the market has dropped like a stone...
...what he believes in-primarily, Boulez's own precise brand of serialism, Webern, and the two most important "traditionalists" in his life, Stravinsky and Debussy. His own music (notably Eclat, Le Marteau sans Maitre, fresh, glittering, mobile works filled with a constant sense of surprise that belies their tight structure) reflects his individuality. An acknowledged egotist ("And you can be sure, as I grow older I will become even more so"), Boulez possesses a blazing aphoristic gift for denouncing all those who do not agree with him. On everyone who writes opera today: "Since Wozzeck and Lulu, no opera...
...director like John Ford, if he thought this tedious two-hour tale worth the telling, could have done it in a tight ninety minutes. Leone spends most of his time focusing on the actors' eyes squinting tensely into the camera lens. The intent is operatic, but the effect is soporific. Stuck in this gluepot horse opera, such veteran range hands as Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale and Keenan Wynn struggle helplessly and often hysterically. But the picture, such as it is, belongs to Charles Bronson. A flinty character actor who has appeared in everything from The Great Escape...
October 20: Members of the Soc Rel 148 teaching staff said they were asking the Federal government for an $11,000 grant to help pay course expenses not covered by the tight Faculty budget. If the government decided to give the money, it would come from the Labor Department's "Coalition for Youth" fund and would pay teaching fellow salaries and guest lecture fees...