Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years when every passing skirt or newspaper article excites them. It is a beautiful simplicity, but one that exists at the expense of turbulent reality as young people know it. It cannot convey, because it does not remember, what being a child is like. The Words is not an account of an extraordinary childhood, but the extraordinary fantasy about childhood of a man who has created things with words all of his life. When it comes to recounting the events of his childhood Sartre (exactly like Genet's Lady of the Flowers when she is asked to describe the crime...
This raised a problem: since all accounts Sartre could give of his life would be equally false, why not choose the account most attuned to the vision of his life he now holds? Sartre presently believes he is a writer who writes for his own salvation, not because it will change the course of events in the world or influence intellectual history. At present, therefore, the best story for Our Lady Jean-Paul to tell about his childhood was that it consisted of words-- reading them and writing them. Perhaps this is a pose, but since even the shredded memories...
...fifty-fifty profit-sharing) ever since Standard of New Jersey brought in the first big field in 1959. Since then, output has shot up so fast that Libya now ranks eighth among the world's oil-producing nations, and this year's $250 million oil income will account for 80% of King Idris' revenues. Of 20 companies active in Libya, 13 are American...
...chess pieces. For those who like social history, Mirror of Fashion by Margarete Braun-Ronsdorf (McGraw-Hill; $26.50) is a copious survey of European costume from the French Revolution to 1929, while Leather Armchairs by Charles Graves (Coward-McCann; $7.95) is an anecdote-laden, fascinating-in-spite-of-itself account of all the major London clubs. What may well prove to be both the best-illustrated and best-written of the Kennedy memorial books is The Kennedy Years (Viking; $16.50), a massively complete compilation of photographs with equally compendious text by the New York Times...
Usually, the development of skiing as an industry is undertaken by groups of professional investors. Occasionally, however, genuine skiers will edge into the business, although almost always on a very modest scale. The following is an account of such an instance...