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More fundamentally, the stock market is mirroring the business and financial community's deepening lack of confidence in Jimmy Carter's management of the economy. Says Du Pont Chairman Irving Shapiro: "I still think he is a man of great ability. But he let himself get diverted by political slogans rather than sticking to his knitting." Adds James M. Howell, chief economist for the First National Bank of Boston: "Businessmen thrive on certainty. The President has bitten off half a dozen big projects, and all of them generate a tremendous amount of uncertainty...
Comment Ca Va. A new film by Jean-Luc Godard, with Fortini/Cani, by Jean Marie Straub and Daniel Huillet, in program presented by the Cahiers du Cinema, beginning Saturday at 7 in Science Center...
Concentrating on Romantic and contemporary concerts. Ariel Chamber Ensemble begins its season with program of Brahms, Ravel, Stravinsky and Milhaud Ariel emphasizes "dramatic works" and the relationship between music and theater. The chamber group will play Ravel's "Trois Poemes de Stephane Mallarme," Milhaud's "La Creation du Monde," and Brahms' Quintet Op. 111. There will also be two works by Stravinsky--"Fanfare" and "Trois Poesies de la Lyrique Japonaise." The performers are professional musicians interested in, according to its pamphlet, the "growth of a new and innovative form, music/theater." Ariel will be in Sanders Theatre on Friday night. Tickets...
...have your nerve. You condemn William Safire for his "groaners" in the same issue [Oct. 3] that you commit "Sloops du Jour,'' "The Spy Who Came in for the Gold," "Growing Fonda of Jane" and, worst of all, "did not go gently into that good nightside...
...vigilance is necessary. Since the protection of trademarks was initiated a century ago, more than a million have been registered, but only about 40% still enjoy protection under federal law. Some have simply been abandoned by their proprietors (Bristol-Myers' Ipana toothpaste) or dedicated outright to public use (Du Font's nylon). Paradoxically, some of the most successful trademarks have been lost because of their very popularity; they became so firmly entrenched in the language that no single company could still legitimately claim ownership. Over the years, such casualties have included mimeograph, linoleum, cellophane, elevator, escalator, raisin bran...