Word: abouts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The growth has created an unusual demand for young executives, and Clark has developed an equally unusual method of training them. Every year Amexco assigns six or seven new graduate-school alumni to be management consultants within Amexco. Each one studies a particular new business opportunity or competitive threat and...
Practitioners of econometrics use countless statistics to build complex mathematical models (see cut). The statistics are weighted according to the economists' own idea of their importance, and the result is intended to serve as a picture of the real world. The models vary, but they usually contain data about...
A Western kid, Carl Dixon (Michael Douglas), goes AWOL from an Eastern college. He returns to the family ranch-a spread about the size of Rhode Island-to make an important announcement: he has enlisted in the Army to see if he can love the enemy up close as he...
At the start, Ginsberg shows a flicker of humor-which is more than can be said for his actors. When Joe (Rip Torn) tells a masochistic nymph that "there are only two or three ways," she volunteers brightly: "I could talk to a friend on the phone while you'...
Freedom, then, is what the book is finally about. Fashionably, but compellingly, Fowles sees freedom not as an escape but a return-a return to a more natural order, to a more fundamental morality of self-discovery and self-fulfillment. The same is true, Fowles seems to be saying, of...