Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...cover story (and six pages of color) on the Shakespeare boom goes beyond the three Stratfords (England, Ontario and Connecticut), for the great revival of the Bard is breaking out in print and libraries, on disk and stages the world over...
...Betweens. Politically, the rebels were in better shape. Despite De Gaulle's hopes to the contrary, the economic boom in Algiers (TIME, June 20) and other Algerian cities has not won over to the French cause even those Moslems who benefit from it. Though few of them dare express their views for fear of French army reprisals, the bulk of Algeria's Moslems, including some who outwardly "collaborate" with France, continue to sympathize with the F.L.N. demand for independence. Higher wages for Moslem workers often help finance a bigger contribution to F.L.N. coffers, and time and again, French...
...Othello in sign language. Next year tribesmen in Southern Rhodesia will play Macbeth costumed as Zulu warriors in animal tails and feathers. As for his native England, the playwright's blessed plot resounds with Shakespeare, from the Old Vic to Regents Park, where the lyrics of The Tempest boom through stereophonic loudspeakers suspended from the trees...
...number of the page, and the quotient was seven!"). According to the Donnelly lucky-seven countdown, it turned out that Bacon wrote not only Shakespeare, but all of Marlowe, Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy and Montaigne's Essays. The Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford boom was drummed up in 1920 by a Gateshead schoolmaster named J. Thomas Looney, a proper foil for the Baconian camp's George M. Battey. The fact that De Vere died in 1604, and The Tempest, for example, contains allusions to events after 1604, puts a crimp in the thesis...
...appliance industry's problem is not so much a slump as a boom that failed to get off. As one G.E. applianceman explained: "Everybody was elated about the sensational golden '60s that were going to bust wide-open. We got a little over-optimistic." Production cutbacks are the or der of the day. Frigidaire last week laid off 1,150 Dayton-plant employees indefinitely. This week G.E.'s vast $300 million Appliance Park plant in Louisville shut down its refrigerator division for a week, laid off 4,500 workers. This month it will close its large home...