Word: borrowings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contemplative re-rouging, a monologue that skips carelessly from sex to her new blue coat. Leaud plays a jokier person than Miss Goya, except when he is with Miss Goya. We watch while he and a Marx-spouting companion lounge in a cafe, get up one at a time, borrow sugar from a table nearby. The two are inspecting the breasts of a lady sitting at the table. The verdict is "Fantastique...
...million remaining. A keener student of the tax game, the late auto heir and playboy Horace Dodge, who died at 63 in 1963, took it all with him and more. Unable to get along on his $150,000 yearly income from a trust fund, Dodge managed to borrow at least $10 million from his mother, Mrs. Anna Thomson Dodge, 99, to bankroll his wining and wiving. When his estate was probated, it totaled a pitiable $718,278, enough to pay off 4? on the dollar on $ 12 million in court-approved claims by his mother and four former wives...
...accomplishes his act of conception at the price of his own extinction." Shareholders cannot even pretend to power because ownership of stock has become so diffuse. Big capitalists and bankers have lost influence because the typical corporation generates its own funds and does not need to borrow so much. The corporation has also become so bafflingly complex that even the chief executive is often little more than a symbol, a cheerleader and a rubber stamp for decisions that eventually work their way up through labyrinthine committees. And there is where the power lies...
...BORROW YOUR HUSBAND? AND OTHER COMEDIES OF THE SEXUAL LIFE, by Graham Greene. The sex is muted and slightly mellowed by years, which is not necessarily bad-at least it isn't in these twelve amusing and smoothly told short stories...
...borrow, if I may, a few words from the CRIMSON article of April 27: "....They are everywhere. Walk into Lamont and you see three of four of them, hands tracing large 'S' patterns with their fingers down the pages. And there are many more to come...