Word: discards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...boasted, "This is no book,/ Who touches this touches a man." Who touches the book of American Dreams touches not one but a hundred men and women and, by implication, millions more. In an age of faceless polls, sociological tracts and psychobabble, politicians and historians would do well to discard ten pounds of printouts for every page of the author's impressive oral histories. The people, yes. Studs Terkel positively...
...credit control apparatus it had built in March. At that time, the Federal Reserve began charging major banks a three-point interest-rate surcharge on funds they borrowed from it; that levy was eliminated last week. There were also strong expectations that Washington might be preparing to discard the rest of the credit curbs initiated two months ago. Fed Chairman Paul Volcker had been opposed to the measures, which included reserve requirements on new credit-card borrowings and on money-market funds. Observers expected that Volcker would use the first available opportunity, like the recession...
This, however, is not Morgan's thesis, for he has no thesis, but relies on the simple value of a story presented objectively. Without a damning or praising conclusion from Morgan, the aspiring writer and the aspiring socialite can choose to admire Maugham's success or to discard him as incapable of true creation. Morgan's biography brings his life in focus with his literature, revealing how Maugham obliterated the fine line between his life and his work...