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...what does the sports shelf have to gain besides a higher class of allusion from this new breed of Jock Lit? Well, length for one thing−notably in the case of James Michener. As readers of tomes like Hawaii and Centennial can testify, Michener is not one to take his obligations lightly, and the way he tells it. he owes a lot to sports. As a closet jock−and most Jock Lit starts with confession−Michener testifies that basketball rescued him from a career of crime as a tough kid in Doylestown, Pa. At 69, tennis...
...scholarly interest. Both her father and her sister whom she joins every summer in Switzerland, are "real botanists" and the woman tends 39 plants in her apartment. She claims that she knows more about plants than any graduate student and in fact seems faintly suspicious of the grad breed since she reported that a divinity student whom she once knew asked her to write his thesis for him on the uses of episcopalian priests' habits. Yet the child of Aries also insisted that it is the graduate students and not she about whom The Crimson should be writing because graduate...
...develop a set of specific political strategies to combat their power in American society. Barnet and Mueller believe that the 1960s saw a crucial shift in both the operations and the orientation of the giant oligopolistic corporations that dominate the American economy. In that period, a new breed of "global managers" arose who no longer see the national economy as the natural focus of corporate interests. Instead they aspire to organize and direct the world economy on their own. These men, such as Jacques Maisonrouge of IBM and George Ball of Lehman Brothers International (a former Undersecretary of State...
Jean Paul Getty was one of a not-yet-vanished American breed, the lone wolf operator who, through cunning, luck and a sharp sense of timing, builds vast wealth and a far-flung business colossus almost singlehandedly. "If I were starting again," he liked to tell visitors at Sutton Place, his 16th century estate outside London, "I'd do it the same way -exploring, wildcatting. If you hit it you get rich. If you don't you go broke...
...Harlan Lane points out in The Wild Boy of Aveyron, the child who grew up in the woods of central France entered a world of misconceptions when he surfaced in 1800. Philosophers expected him to fulfill Rousseau's ideal of the "Noble Savage," while a new breed of doctors eyed him for a test of behavior modification. So many ogling spectators filled the streets when Victor was first taken to Paris, in fact, that he became victor and began to bite the scores of outstretched hands...