Word: felix
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...EUROPEANS Directed by James Ivory Screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala The Europeans is one of Henry James' most delightful novels, a small, approachable comedy of manners, widely regarded among Jamesian scholars as the masterpiece of his early years. But the story of Eugenia and Felix, Europeanized sister and brother who return to Massachusetts for some genteel fortune hunting, is, on the face of it, unlikely material for a film in the Age of Travolta...
...learns the tools of his trade quickly, throwing the blame for his own plots on others and magically convincing those around him to do what he asks. By the age of 24, Sobhraj is a man disowned by both father and nation, befriended only by a lone Frenchman named Felix, who annoyingly returns to save the prison-bound Charles time and time again. This is not a nice young man. "You should have let him stay in prison," Charles' father warns the young Frenchman. "He begged you and you believed him and took pity on him. And now the result...
...toes of a few Cabinet colleagues and Nixon advisers. When he left after 15 months, partly in frustration with the President's protective staff, Commerce Secretary Peter Peterson said, "The State Department is having a going-away party; it's now in its 32nd hour." Says New York Financier Felix Rohatyn: "I think he has a rather confrontationist attitude. I don't think that's a viable proposition any more...
...When there is a "clear and unequivocal and recent decision" by a higher court, a judge is bound to follow it and not try to carve out new law. Hill also believes deeply in the concept of the judiciary that he learned "at the feet of Felix Frankfurter" when the late Supreme Court Justice was a teacher and Hill a student at Harvard Law School in the late '30s. Says Hill: "Frankfurter had a very strong and very well-thought-out concept of judicial restraint that would have kept the courts out of many political matters...
...corporations to compete on an international basis." Senator Jacob Javits of New York, the ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, argued that the U.S. should not force American companies doing business abroad to adhere to antitrust standards tougher than those of the countries where they operate. Felix Rohatyn, a partner in the investment banking house of Lazard Freres, noted that governments in Europe and Japan are urging the merging of some of their own big firms to sharpen their ability to compete in world markets...