Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...become a grandmother; the lines on her face were real; her poignancy and power were all the more effective for her age. Cobb, now 54, had played the part so memorably (330 times) on Broadway that he and Willy have become nearly indistinguishable. Even on TV's western series, The Virginian, he seemed to be a peddler in the saddle, itching to dismount and begin pushing his products...
...WESTERN EUROPE...
...investment capital abroad, U.S. corporations have developed a vast appetite for dollars already in foreign hands. So far, 27 companies have borrowed some $525 million overseas, and this year they are consuming two-thirds of the world's long-term dollar loans beyond U.S. borders. One result: Western Europe has eclipsed Wall Street as the leading market for international bonds...
...time that two-or even three can live more cheaply than one, in 1963 paired his successful coal-hauling C. & O. with the deficit-ridden Baltimore & Ohio, thus producing a $65 million combined annual profit within two years, and this year (pending ICC approval) adding the Norfolk & Western line to build a network that in track (26,460 miles from Maine to Nebraska) and annual revenues ($1.82 billion) would rank as the nation's second biggest, next to the newly joined Pennsylvania New York Central; of a heart attack; in Cleveland...
Vietnam in Turmoil, shown Wednesday at the Harvard Square Theatre, represents a new breed of films: the travelogue-war movie. Here is the familiar inane narration describing stray bits of native culture for Western eyes. Here is the widespread dullness of staged photography: the religious dance performed in an empty temple, or the peasant family seemingly ordered to cook a meal for the camera's benefit. Even when the camera turns to something indisputably real--such as the wreckage of the American Embassy or the ashes of a farmer's hut--it always seems to be missing not only...