Word: zenith
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GENERAL ELECTRIC will resume making color TV sets this summer, having given up five years ago. GE says it is joining Zenith and other manufacturers who went into color recently because color TV is entering "the initial phase of mass-market acceptance." Until then, R.C.A. was sticking it out almost alone...
...stocks selling at this high level in relation to earnings." says Paine, Webber's Harry Comer. "And the market is facing a period of poor earnings reports that may blast investors' hopes." Wall Street has been oddly inconsistent in its reaction to that important barometer, earnings. When Zenith released poor nine-month earnings, its stock dropped from 103 to 99⅜. Yet National Steel announced that 1960 earnings dropped from $7.28 to $5.53, and its stock gained 1½ points...
...bookkeeper for the Dublin Board of Trade by day, by evening an Abbey player in ever-fatter roles. Then famed Playwright Sean O'Casey wrote The Silver Tassie, and Fitzgerald opened it in London as a fulltime actor, quickly became the vogue in brogue. His Hollywood zenith came in 1945, when he won an Oscar for his supporting role as a cantankerous but lovable old priest in Going...
...mother who starves herself to buy her son's art supplies, and the chance meeting, when all seems darkest, with the count's fair young daughter. Now and then the prose gavottes giddily from its stolid march formation ("Before his sun of life had reached its noonday zenith, he returned to the inscrutable Infinite . . ."), and the author is too fond of teasingly retrieving his hero from the brink of fleshly ruin...
Though it does insist on this shadow-boxing with Symbol and Idea, Bergman's film remains a thrilling experience for its technically perfect rendition of the mysterious. As a work of surface brilliance, The Magician represents Bergman at the zenith of his considerable powers...