Word: collected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such a high pace for the past year or so that there has been some overbuilding. The consumer savings rate is likely to increase slightly, to about 7.5%. One reason: consumers may well save some of the $5 billion to $10 billion in tax refunds that they stand to collect early this year because of the Treasury's overwithholding from paychecks...
...travel agent--best known for 'Tindle's Tours to Jamaica"--will not keep Marguerite living in the style to which she is accustomed. He persuades Tindle to steal a cache of jewels worth 100.000 pounds hidden in the cellar. Tindle will keep the tiresome Marguerite permanently, and Wyke will collect the insurance. Together they plan the artificial robbery, carefully obeying Wyke's insistence that it be a "true crime of the thirties, with all the amateur aristocratic quirkiness." The game proceeds as both Wyke and Tindle trick each other into more and more flamboyant dissemblance...
...literature between our own experience and its intelligible representation. That Sir Thomas Browne is now studied in universities as a specimen of English 17th century prose doesn't concern the reader, who turns to Pseudodoxia Epidemica in the same spirit that he turns to Wittgenstein or Levi-Strauss: to collect what could be called "taxonomies of natural phenomena." Nostalgia, the sad evocation of our universal angst, episodes which recall a decisive moment in our lives, ontological dread before the landscape we inhabit: these are all sensations which, like the reader's bookshelves, belong to some taxonomic order...
...defending an elitist system of information control. The substance of his argument seems to be that there should be special people with special privileges who keep the public informed. How do such people get their positions? What if I don't trust any of them and want to collect my own information...
...Independence. In writing of contemporary American piety, hypocrisy or corruption, he evokes the ghost of Daniel Shays, a veteran of the American Revolution who led a futile rebellion against the propertied founding fathers when they sought to replace the confederation of states with a central government empowered to collect taxes. Shays, says Vidal with obvious approval, sounding a little like a Dixiecrat, "did not want London to be replaced by New York." Still the Property Party, as Vidal calls those who rule the U.S., has also produced remarkable exceptions like Eleanor Roosevelt, the subject of one of the finest pieces...