Word: australian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after the meeting did Studebaker identify its potential new boss. He is George Wesley Murphy, 61, a onetime used-car salesman who, from his Honolulu base, has amassed a fortune estimated at some $30 million by parlaying a string of auto dealerships into a diversified empire ranging from an Australian motorcar firm to a 23% interest in San Francisco's Union Sugar...
...ships at a 2,000-ton-an-hour rate, has cut loading time from four days to one. Cheaper coal makes Australia a competitive exporter, principally to Japan, which last year took 7,000,000 tons for steelmaking. U.S. coal still accounts for 48% of Japanese imports, but the Australian share has climbed to 30% and undersells U.S. coal...
Patrick White is such a confident contortionist. His double-spiraled mandala is the Hindu symbol of totality embedded in a glass marble, and his vast pretension is to spin out this bauble to encompass all human life in the person of its owner-an Australian half-wit half-man living in a suburb of Sydney...
...Spanish-mosstroopers of Southern decadence ride again in New South Wales. White's celebrated style, in its sidelong, suggestive, subjunctive way, might nudge a reader to the conclusion that this is like early Capote or Tennessee Williams. And, somehow, White has contrived to convert a scrubby Australian suburb into standard Old South gothic. Moldering mansions are in short supply Down Under, but White does what he can with "gothic" grass around the Brown house, wormy quince trees, and the house itself, which is a sort of Greek Revival temple done in clapboard. It is amazing what can be done...
...from another's-even in twin brothers. Mandala does that brilliantly -the same events being seen in succession through the eyes of Waldo and Arthur. This literary flourish, however, is intended to reveal magical happenings and the workings of myth. But which myth? White may have drawn upon Australian aboriginal legend, which invests the possessor of rock crystals with divine power. Waldo and Arthur may also be seen as living out some version of the Greek myth of Tiresias. White finally is content with nothing less than to present some enactment of the central mysteries of Christianity. Arthur...