Word: atlases
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...than anyone else--creating wealth. If Americans cannot like a brilliant man who has increased the standard of living, created an industry, and is a legitimate hero to people all over the world (a living embodiment of the American Dream), I cannot imagine whom they would like. Gates is Atlas holding the economy on his shoulders. He could simply shrug. AMESH ADALJA Butler...
McLaughlin will join the team for a preseason trip to Mexico over spring break, which will afford him his best opportunity to make a positive impression on Rongen. Unfortunately, he will have to do it in exhibition matches against Mexican First Division powers Guadalajara Chivas and Atlas. Rongen's expectations are realistic, though...
...today's authors. Several months ago, The New York Observer ran a piece on the exorbitant book contracts being floated in New York City. A million dollars is nothing, the Observer trumpeted. If you weren't getting a million dollars for your book, you were probably being hoodwinked. James Atlas, writing in The New Yorker a couple of weeks ago, describes how the literary scene has become infatuated with cash lately. The only things writers can talk about at cocktail parties are stock options and mutual funds. His writer friends are getting richer and richer. And he understands them...
...James Atlas suggests that writer have become increasingly into money as their influence declines. Atlas points to art critic Clement Greenberg as an example of a writer satisfied with influence alone. Greenberg could have become a very rich man had he wanted to, Atlas explains, but he was content to dictate the reigning taste in art instead...
...Atlas speaks of money as a form of psychological compensation. Money is a way of feeling good about yourself, a way of measuring how far you have come. As one of Atlas's friends tells him, he needs money to feel smart. Money is treated as a psychological necessity, like security, or peace of mind. The New York Observer treats the book contract bonanza lore like a gold rush than a session with a therapist. There is so much money out there, you simply have to take advantage of the market. The Observer piece reads like a challenge...