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Loser statements are often superfluous as well as dangerous. Often the less said the better: losers who seek an audience court disbelief in their sincerity and should perhaps just carry on in private. As William Butler Yeats once...
...Citibank, which reduced its rate only ¼%. Still, almost everybody finally fell in line with Chase-a victory that earned the bank considerable prestige for sound and shrewd judgment. As to why other banks failed to follow the lead again last week, Chase Vice President and Economist William Butler says: "They're chicken. We're not in the habit of being wrong...
Died. Georgina Yeats, 75, widow of the Irish poet William Butler Yeats; of a heart attack; in Dublin. "How should I forget the wisdom that you brought/ The comfort that you made?" wrote Yeats in 1919, two years after his marriage to the witty, cultured English woman who was his confidante, and to some extent, muse. In 1963, nearly 30 years after his death, she gave Ireland's National Library a collection of his manuscripts that officials termed "one of the most munificent gifts since the founding of the state...
Which came first, P. G. Wodehouse or the English butler? Wodehouse's publishers confess they are not even certain whether he is 87 years old and has written a million books, or a million years old and has written 87 books. Anyhow the figures strain the imagination-but not more so than this potty tale about a bogus butler who sets out to burgle a Worcestershire bank. Connoisseurs of the old master's brand of daffy brouhaha will savor it to the last page. For those who don't trust any writer over 80-well, maybe they...
...morality play to make the allegory relevant and accessible to the audience of 1968. A tired and neurotic God often hidden behind an American flag looks down on an illusion-ridden, somewhat desperate, party below. He is flanked by Death, dressed as an English gentleman (or perhaps the perfect butler) on his right and the best blues band in Cambridge down-stage in front of him. Everyman, rich, irreligious, and self-satisfied, is approached by Death while making love to Beauty his mistress (Tommy Lee Jones rattles off his "Death, ye comest when I had ye least in mind...