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...ones we use and over-use--"ego," "repression"--for want of better ones. This is not good enough for someone whose whole business is the delicate shading of every sense and tone. Such horrors as the scene in The Magic Mountain when Thomas Mann has his heroine ask to borrow the hero's pencil are ample warning that novels ought to be sources for the psychologist and not vice versa. For Nabokov, art is more fundamental than sex. And even Freud, unlike many Freudians, realized, 1) that sex isn't the only form of Sex, and 2) that a cigar...
...direct effects of the crisis. Though some countries hope to increase exports of specific products, total exports of the poor nations could fall painfully, if fuel shortages slow economic growth among their customers in the industrialized world. Some economists project a drop that will force the underdeveloped countries to borrow $15 billion from the rich nations this year. That would add to a debt burden that already is growing oppressive. One economist for an American bank in London predicts that five years from now, most of the foreign aid that underdeveloped countries get will go right back to the industrialized...
...their own land, produced their own food, and been guaranteed a measure of security by the village communal lands. The French stole their land and brutally forced them into a tenuous life on the edge of existence. To pay the frightful rents and skyrocketing taxes, peasants were forced to borrow from their landlords--at interest rates ranging from 100 to 3650 per cent. The peasant had to sell everything he owned--his water buffalo, old heirlooms, sometimes even his children--to keep his head above water. He hitched his wife and children to his plow to replace the water buffalo...
...apple butter factory and making connections with food-chain distributors. This cooperative will offer higher prices for apples to local farmers than the middlemen--the truckers who buy apples to resell for higher prices in Guatemala City. The co-op assembly decided to take the risk and borrow the money to invest in the factory, on the condition that the volunteer would extend his stay another two years, until the factory is established...
Vellucci supported the amendment and reminded the council that he had called for the city to borrow $1 million last year to put 100 or more patrolmen on the street...