Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WORDS, by Jean-Paul Sartre. After a series of increasingly labored, metaphysically morose works, Sartre has written a clear-eyed, warm, but very sad account of his early years. The despair of modern existentialism, it turns out, is partly rooted in the struggle for sanity of a bookish, lonely child...
Interested and disturbed, naturally, by your entire report of the attack upon a University policeman by a "rowdy local youth," I am bothered also by a detail of this news item. Speaking of the officer's refusal to comment on the incident, your reporter closes his account by writing "freshmen who witnessed the incident insisted on all three points." Why did the freshmen not help the policeman when he needed help? I am reminded of the 28 or more people who watched a girl being murdered in Queens a few months ago and who did not even take the trouble...
...Pentagon felt that all this had got out of hand when left to individual discretion, but its proscription of expense-account lunches along with gifts made many Washingtonians wonder how defense business would be conducted at all. Few officers want to return permanently to taking lunch at the Pentagon's dreary, stand-up snack bars, and neither they nor the lobbyists are likely to revolutionize their lunching habits until there is a test case of the new rule...
Saudi Arabia's King Saud keeps some $20 million there, and Jordan's King Hussein has several secret accounts (he signs his checks on one account with a pen name, "The Eagle"). Such depositors appreciate the fact that Lebanon has one of the world's freest capital markets and a Swiss-like secrecy law so rigid that any loose-tongued banker can be jailed for two years. Beirut's safety has also impressed some of the usually suspicious sheiks of the Persian Gulf. Sheik Shakhbut of Abu Dhabi, who earns $1,000,000 a week from...
...romantic period. Byron, he reveals, slept with his hair in curlers; Sir Walter Scott was as stout a trencherman as any character in his historical novels. Gronow was a friend of Shelley's at Eton, and recalls how the fledgling poet, inspired by Homer's account of heroic single combats before Troy, took on a young baronet named Sir Thomas Styles in a fist fight. "Shelley stalked round the ring and spouted one of the defiant addresses usual with Homer's heroes: the young poet, being a first-rate classical scholar, actually delivered the speech...