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Greek tragedy used to be inaccessible to the American temperament. In a play like Oedipus, for example, it was felt that the punishment of the hero was horrifyingly in excess of his crime, and that too much of the action rested with the will of the gods and too little within the control of the man. In the past decade, public events have brought home to Americans a growing awareness that fate may not be in one's hands but at one's throat. The dirgelike destiny of the Kennedys, the war in Viet Nam, racial turmoil, urban...
David Ely commits his familiar allegory with finesse, the same imaginative energy and nimble prose that marked his previous contributions to social-science fiction, Seconds, The Tour and Time Out, a collection of short stories. If Poor Devils suffers, it is from an excess of padding and marginal rumination. But they are not enough to blunt the book's theme: the enormous human need to feel valuable in a dangerous, complex world, where men are numbed or manipulated by remote control for what may or may not be their own good. As embodied in the aggressively bathless Carl Lundquist...
...Louis?" scoffs Marie Antoinette. "He has the brains of a chicken." In the metaphoric excess of cinema courtiers, the Duke d'Escargot reminds her: "The brains of a chicken coupled with the claws of two eagles may hatch the eggs of our destruction...
...fiscal 1971, explains a top Budget Bureau official, the effect would have been to encourage Congress to raise its spending sights. More important, Nixon's successful veto of the Labor-HEW bill last week (see following story) and his threat to impound other funds that he considers excess will probably inhibit congressional spenders...
...intrigued Wall Street for several reasons. Though the interest rate on the $100 debentures has not yet been set, A.T. & T. made it clear that the return will be enticing to little savers who are disenchanted with the yields available from savings accounts. The debentures may pay interest in excess of 8%. Because A.T. & T. is the dowager queen of the investment world, its action promises to make warrants a more popular and respectable way for blue-chip companies to raise money. For years, the New York Stock Exchange has barred trading in warrants on the ground that they...