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...Street Journal surveyed 26 industries, found earnings were higher than in last year's third quarter for all but cement companies, chain groceries and papermakers. Spectacular successes were noted by airlines (Pan Am and TWA both had record earnings). Oil companies, notably those with major overseas operations, showed brisk earnings; Sinclair alone had a 76% rise to $45 million for the first three quarters...
...about French Neo-Realist Marc Saporta's do-it-yourself novel-which by all logic should have been a boring nonbook-is that it turns out to be a provocative piece of literary gimcrackery. This is in large part due to Saporta's skill at clicking off brisk, precise, sensuous sentences with the cool ease of a man spinning coins on a marble table. But it owes much to his use of the literary come-on. On one page, for example, Dagmar is seen standing next to a Christmas tree. "Through the tree's branches," writes Saporta...
Booming auto sales have made bright times for steelmakers. So have brisk orders for steel to be used in freight cars, appliances and construction (given a lift by the prolonged balmy weather). With production rising for most of the past two months, steelmakers last week predicted that they would produce 108 million tons this year-up 10 million tons from 1962. Prices and profits are also on the rise. This promises to be by far the best year for the nation's basic industry since...
...contemporaries agreed that Santayana was a fellow who just did not fit in. Born in Spain and brought up in Boston, he was never really at home in Europe or the U.S. At a time when philosophy was robustly assured, Santayana remained a quiet skeptic. Other philosophers wrote a brisk, matter-of-fact style; Santayana wrote a highly poetic one. They were aggressively liberal and believed in the inevitability of progress; Santayana was a hermitlike conservative who yearned for tradition, a settled order, a sense of place...
...brisk pace, Visconti follows the triumph of the Garibaldini in Sicily, Don Fabrizio's acceptence of the Risorgimento, and the hesitant commingling of the old and the new. The last comes in a magnificent sequence detailing the end of the journey made by the Prince and his family to their summer palace in a village above Palermo. Descending from dusty carriages, Don Fabrizio is greeted by a host of punctuous officials and the jaunty blaring of a brass band. With deliberate steps, he walks the gauntlet of gaping, impoverished eyes to enter the cathedral where the organ is playing...