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...setting is the fictitious country Cuyama, "a tract of land perched uneasily on the sloping shoulder of South America, a degree or two north of the Equator." Aubrey St. Pierre, whose once illustrious family grew wealthy with the aid of sugar-cane plantations and slave labor, harbors guilt and runs a bookstore; the Cuyamese citizens, whose culture he hopes to elevate, stay away in droves. Aubrey's wife Dina broods on her mixed Hindustani and Portuguese origins and roundly hates her native grounds: "Nothing worthwhile had ever been created on this sterile patch of earth perched on the edge...
Futility does not, as a rule, breed much suspense. And Trinidad-born Author Shiva Naipaul, 39, leaves little room to imagine that life in Cuyama will do anything but grow progressively worse. The interesting question in this novel, Naipaul's third, is not whether Aubrey's idealism will founder but what forms his disillusionment will take. Faced with a failing business and marriage, the hero hurls himself into the struggle to save the constitution...
...called People's Plebiscite, which will in fact legalize dictatorship, must be stopped. Aubrey writes letters to editors, signs manifestoes. Dina looks on skeptically: "His passion, his sincerity, could not be disputed. The only thing that could be disputed was his capacity to stem the tide of events." Aubrey's spirits soar when Alexander Richer, an old college friend and now a prominent British journalist, responds to a whim and decides to visit Cuyama for a few days. Aubrey tells Dina: "It's a great coup for us to have him' coming out here." Perhaps...
...will be slightly stricter this year than in 1983. Its goal for M 1, the basic money supply, which includes mainly currency in circulation and checking accounts, will be 4% to 8%, down from 5% to 9% last year. Said David Jones, chief economist of Wall Street's Aubrey G. Lanston investment firm: "The Fed has thrown down the gauntlet to the Administration, saying, 'We will not monetize the deficit even if this is an election year.' " Volcker's resolve has dashed Wall Street's hopes that interest rates will soon fall...
...lure of guest suites for interesting visitors has prompted Mather House to refurbish its one suite this fall. "It definitely won't look like one of the students' rooms," says Anne Aubrey, assistant to the masters...