Word: colde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...love and grace from human relations. Unfortunately the thesis seems to crush the book's main character, to drain the life from him. Piet is, supposedly, the scapegoat of the couples. And it is the group's judgment that Piet was used by Foxy in order to discard her cold-fish husband. But to see him as a scapegoat is to accept him as will less--and so the author seems to have viewed...
...wish that the world not be as Updike sees it--cold, without essential human feelings or grandeur--that causes me to seek a refuge in these artistic strictures. But Couples does seem a novel in which the author's volition, his thesis, have been allowed to substitute for the free play of the imagination, for a full measure of humanity for his characters...
...Cold Cash. Ovral will be only the latest addition to American Home's highly diverse collection of scores of bottled, boxed, wrapped and canned products. Founded 42 years ago in a merger of a group of drug companies, American Home soon moved beyond the medicine cabinet. Though ethical drugs, ranging from antibiotics to Equanil to Sabin polio vaccine, account for 35% of sales, and proprietary drugs supply another 17%, American Home now reaches into such diverse lines as kitchenware and candy...
...company's key assets have been a keen sense of new markets and the cold cash to advertise for them. The aggressive salesmanship started in the 1930s when American Home hired on as president a hard-selling toothpowder (Dr. Lyons) executive, Alvin Brush. Brush soon horrified traditionalists by ordering Anacin, which had been marketed as an ethical drug, to be put on sale at drugstore counters. The $50 million current yearly sales of Anacin are more than double American Home's total sales...
After playing brillantly in early matches, Levin caught a cold just prior to the Princeton match and has not looked strong in the past couple of matches. Barnaby withdrew his star from doubles play against Brown earlier this week and plans to rest him whenever possible...