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...said he does a "small amount" of consulting. But when asked for whom, he said, "I just can't answer that. It's a long list and a matter of confidentially working with people." This semester Spence is teaching Economics 2610, "Industrial Organization," which addresses, according to the catalog blurb, "The structure and functioning of markets in American industry, including market structure and the nature of competition, innovation, antitrust policy, and other public policies toward the regulation of markets...
...were much-heralded new arrivals on the political , scientific or cultural scene--stellar entrants that never quite made it. Each was a "news event" Time magazine might have chirped about in a short blurb one week, and then promptly forgotten. They were all firecrackers that roared skyward and then fizzled...
...that no objective account could offer, but with an air of authority that a straight piece of fiction or biography would not provide. It is Mee's style that makes the book a cohesive and meaningful treatment of "the wounds that Watergate inflicted on the American psyche" (as the blurb on the jacket phrases it). Another writer might not have pulled it off. Mee writes with force and vitality, using personalities, incidents and daydreams from his own life as tools to evoke and historical mood...
...must protest your cover blurb -"Mao's wife" indeed! Surely a woman as formidable and powerful as Chiang...
...definition of vulgarity, Jong writes that hostile criticism of her first novel makes her think of "Jews gassed at Auschwitz." (Actually, Fear of Flying was extravagantly overpraised.) She also contrives to turn the tragic suicide of Poet Anne Sexton (named "Jeannie" in the book) into a kind of posthumous blurb for herself...