Word: wernicke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have costs gone up so fast, and why does industry find it so hard to cut them? Last week Federal Reserve Economist Murray Wernick gave as his reason the fact that industry has exaggerated the gains in productivity credited to production-line workers. These so-called gains form the basis for wage boosts, and also lead industry to exaggerate the wages it can give without increasing costs...
...mind that this work is not a straight play. Moliere called it a comedie-ballet. This production retains all the songs and dances called for in the original. Moliere had as his composer and conductor the famous musician Jean-Baptiste Lully; the Lully of this show is Richard Wernick. Wernick has written a dry and witty score fully in keeping with the play; and he presides over a small live orchestra (all in period costume) of winds and percussion, and plinks on a harpsichord from time to time himself. (It would be ungratefully pedantic to complain about the anachronistic...