Word: aperitifs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wellesley then has followed the practice of saving the best wine for the second course, its aperitif, Carnival King, is a doubly apt reminder that one must be careful about putting old wine in new bottles. The play, a new one by England's novelist-biographer of Dylan Thomas and King Arthur, Henry Treece, is a rather close reinterpretation of Marlowe's Edward II, minus Marlowe's sensitivity, depth, and clear focusing of the issues...
...production of two operas by Gian-Carlo Menotti, this group has very definitely arrived. From every point of view--singing, acting, staging--The Medium, main feature of the evening, is a superlative theatrical experience. And The Telephone, the curtain-raiser which precedes it, makes a very pleasant comic aperitif...
...Mollet government gave France the bad tax news to accompany the increase in old-age pensions that the Assembly recently approved. This will add $400 million to the tax bill, to be met by surtaxes on salaries, by an added six francs on the price of every aperitif, and by a special tax on automobiles, rigged to discriminate against U.S. cars. (Cars with less than 16 h.p. will be taxed $9 to $23 a year; cars above 16 h.p.-none are mass-produced in France-will be taxed a whopping $285 a year...
...price: up to $500 for a fortnight's rent on the Left Bank, $750 or more on the right. In addition, the artist must usually crank out his own publicity, pay a critic (in cash or paintings) to write a catalogue preface, try to talk an aperitif manufacturer into serving free drinks. Even then the gallery pockets 20% to 33% of the sales...
...intended his second tour to shame Communist President Ho Chi Minh, who has barely stirred from his Hanoi palace since last fall. Diem's second big ovation confirmed that his strength lies increasingly among nationalist-minded villagers who suffered Communist depredations during the war, rather than among the aperitif drinkers in French Saigon...