Word: adams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that caused some of the less demanding reviewers in his adopted country to call him a master stylist." To aid that laggard crowd, Nabokov has provided some blatant examples of the wordplays he is famous for. Proofreading R's new book, he puzzles about an incidental character named Adam von Librikov. Lest anyone miss the point, Nabokov adds, "Or was the entire combination a sly scramble...
...AMERICAN HERITAGE HISTORY OF AMERICAN BUSINESS & INDUSTRY by Alex Groner and editors of American Heritage and Business Week. 384 pages. American Heritage. $17.95. Capitalism, usually dated from the publication of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776), conveniently has the same birth year as the American Republic, and the two have grown up too close together to have entirely separate histories. This volume skillfully examines the story of American expansion in all its derring-do, spectacular accomplishment and folly, from the chartered firms that settled the first colonies to Henry Ford's revolution on wheels. A very unblinking...
Like their predecessors, the new immigrants perceive the true goddess of America, Technology, not as villain but as savior. The factory, however sordid or boring, has legally limited hours and, customarily, provides a string of fringe benefits. "Adam Smith" points out in Supermoney: "Somebody who has spent 16 hours a day looking at the wrong end of an ox for sub-subsistence on a patch in Poland may not complain at all when he emigrates with a paper suitcase to a steel mill on the South Side of Chicago." The message is quite clear: in the history of American immigration...
...ADAM SMITH...
...Money Game, George J.W Goodman, alias Adam Smith, told all about the stock market surge of the mid-'60s: spiraling "gogo" mutual funds and other forms of seemingly instant wealth. Now that the party has, to put it mildly, ended, Smith takes an equally knowledgeable and witty look at the market's four-year hangover. Former go-go artists will enjoy Supermoney (already a bestseller) about as much as Napoleon would have liked War and Peace...