Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Written during a hectic three-and-a-half weeks in the summer of 1741, Handel's oratorio has always been a smash. If a nearly endless succession of well-meaning popularizers have taken gross and extravagant liberties with it, Handel is partly to blame. A shrewd businessman, he ensured The Messiah's success by hiring the best and most popular singers in 18th century London to sing it. If the bass singer was not very good, Handel would turn the bass aria into a recitative, rewrite it for an alto or even a soprano. For flexible soprano voices...
...accomplishing something. "I want to make my money myself, not just let someone invest it for me." No, he didn't want to stay in entertainment all his life. The people are fun and it's okay while you're young, but it isn't suited to a serious businessman's mentality: he thought in terms of receipts, not glamor...
...many years ago, an enormously successful businessman who had built a corporation from scratch reflected on the career of his friend Joe Kennedy: "Joe was a pure capitalist, not the Wall Street kind. The Wall Street establishment has a bias on the bull side. Joe didn't. He never took responsibility for building or running anything. But he had money sense. He knew what to use his money for-how to have fun with it. Joe bought all those houses. He made all those movies. He understood about buying himself positions in government-London, for example. And he knew...
...ominous question is whether inflationary psychology has become so pervasive that it can be cured only by a rattling recession. The public realizes that the people who bet on inflation in past years have been rewarded, while those who pursued prudence have been punished. The businessman who raised his prices in recent years lost few if any customers but increased his profits; the businessman who did not raise prices saw his earnings drop. The consumer who borrowed for a spending spree is paying off his debt in cheapened dollars; the consumer who saved instead is holding dollars that have depreciated...
...least a protagonist who can face a tough moral decision with honesty. In A Covenant with Death, a youthful judge must decide the fate of a man who kills his executioner after being convicted of a murder that he did not commit. Juice concerns a wealthy businessman fighting the machinery mobilized to exonerate him of the drunken-driving death of a pedestrian. Now, in his sixth novel, Becker, 42, turns back to the Civil War. In an excellent period morality tale, a Union Army officer attempts to save the life of a teen-age Confederate boy who shot him during...