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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three weeks the crisis in world money markets had been gathering, set off by rumors that West Germany's healthy Deutsche Mark would be revalued. Speculators hastened to sell their francs for marks, and during that period a total of some $1.7 billion in francs was sold, forcing France to use its gold reserves to support the parity of its currency. The run stopped only when the world's currency markets were closed down for three days to give the West's industrial nations, the so-called Group of Ten, a chance to solve the crisis. After...
...high that student scalpers were getting up to $175 for a Harvard Stadium seat. Proud possessor of a defensive unit that called itself the "Destroyers' Club," Harvard had allowed its opponents only 230 yds. and 7.6 points per game. Yale, a team that ranked No. 3 in total offense, had averaged 467 yds. and 36 points a game...
Such a program actually saves money. Cut off from routine preventive medicine, poverty-ridden people tend to be extremely ill when they are finally compelled to go into a hospital. A sample of 54 Columbia Point families was found to have had a total of 200 hospital days in the year before the center opened. Two years later, because of better preventive care, this had dropped to 40 days-an 80% reduction. Hospitalization, at $50 to $100 a day in true costs, is the most expensive part of medical care. For these 54 families alone, the second-year saving...
Quite apart from its total inability to reflect the intellectual nuances of the Kazantzakis novel, Zorba the Greek, the musical is infinitely inferior, point for point, to the 1964 Michael Cacoyannis film, with its powerful evocation of fierce joys and harsh sorrows against the spare Greek landscape. Anthony Quinn was possessed by the title role; Herschel Bernardi merely inhabits the part like a rented room. Quinn had the sexual assurance of a goat; Bernardi talks up lust as if he were a barker for a snake-oil remedy. Zorba has to be-as Quinn was and Bernardi...
...more than a celebration of unfettered instinct, Zorba's heightened sense of existence comes from his sec-ond-to-second awareness of death. That is why the widow is murdered by the puritanical villagers, and why the apparatus that operates the lignite mine crashes in total disaster. Such is, says Kazantzakis, the destiny of man and all his works. This is the Greek tragic sense of life, and from it springs Zorba's credo: to live in, for and by each moment as if it were the first and the last. With this musical, one soon wishes each...