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Industry is cartelized to a point that would make John D. Rockefeller envious. Companies carry a burden of bank debts that would drive a U.S. executive to drink???or his company to the brink. Above all, every part of the Japanese economy is directed toward a national goal, and almost everybody feels a sense of participation in achieving it. Bureaucrats, bankers, business executives, workers?all labor hard to make Japan a world power through economics...
...Pope's tongue was in his cheek. Pope was a lifelong friend of great Dean Jonathan Swift, 21 years his senior. Swift was parsimonious, but generous to his friends; once when Pope and Gay came to see him he asked them to stay to supper?they had supped; to drink???they preferred talk. The Dean then figured how much he had saved by their refusal, gracefully presented each with half-a-crown...
...graying, patriarchal. Women, to whom he was long indifferent, have come into his life as simply as food and drink???as Woman. In New Orleans, an exquisitely voluptuous Creole girl, schooled in Paris, takes him?great-bodied, red-bronze of complexion?to herself as Man. They part, still lovers, and the episode is invested with the same universality that spreads over a vast hoard of experiences and impressions he gains traveling the broad Mississippi basin by canal, river and Great Lakes, by farmlands, mountains and new cities, back to Brooklyn, to lean on the front fence sucking a twig...
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