Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like many ancient crafts, pure farce disappeared long ago; it was replaced by the machine-tooled "sitcom" or by crude, graffiti-black comedy. But British Playwright Joe Orton was not a man to ride a trend. In the '60s he wrote a cycle of extravagant farces, most of them failures on and off Broadway. Orton would not bow to the times, but circumstances eventually bent to him. His last play, What the Butler Saw, is now an off-Broadway smash. The American stage production of Entertaining Mr. Sloane lasted only 13 performances; the film version is a savagely witty...
...main trend in new housing for the past 15 years has been toward bigger-and better-equipped-homes and apartments. Now the nation's housing crisis has thrown that movement into reverse. Builders are turning again to the construction of small, stripped-down dwellings. The result is a reappearance of what social critics call suburban "ticky-tacky." Much of it is almost as cramped, though perhaps not quite as ugly as the postwar bungalows that earned developers considerable derision in the 1950s...
...with the rise of the personal column. Pioneered by the Pulitzers in the old New York morning World, the Op-Ed provides a variety of viewpoints in dozens of major metropolitan dailies. Curiously enough for a newspaper that prides itself on objectivity, the New York Times has resisted the trend. Last week Publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger announced that the Times will start a daily Op-Ed page in mid-September. "Points of view in disagreement with the editorial position of the Times will be particularly welcomed," said Sulzberger...
Even today the population over 75 in the U.S. is increasing at two and a half times the rate of the general population. If the average life-span is significantly further increased, the population would indeed become aged, a trend which would be accelerated by a drop in the birth rate. As to vigor, when the breakthrough comes in aging research, people in their 70s and 80s should have the energy of those in their 50s and 60s today. Ideally this would produce a greater number of selfless, highly educated wisemen who could undertake complex new projects for the benefit...
...Samuelson thinks that the peak of inflation was passed in the first quarter. The consumer price index in June rose at a seasonally adjusted rate of 4.8%, down from 6% in May. Economists, like housewives, are far from satisfied with that improvement. Still, the June movement looked like a trend, because it followed an earlier deceleration in wholesale price indexes. Wholesale meat prices, for example, began to drop in April, and last month beef and pork prices fell at the supermarket counter. Paul McCracken, the President's chief economist, testified that he expects food prices to decline in coming...