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Last summer, according to one estimate, Americans were so strapped that one out of every four chose to forgo a vacation altogether. Now, for all the corrosions of inflation, food prices and property taxes, money seems a bit looser. Some major economic indicators are up again-the second-quarter gross national product registered the best three-month gain in six years. As the squeeze lessened, airlines were reporting new records of passenger travel. The highways glistened with a tidal flow of Americans getting away; truck drivers complained that the roads were glutted with campers. State parks and national forests were...
...young people more casually, yet with more respect and trust. This has had an effect on me and my wife," he asserts. In fact, he claims that it has transformed their 20-year marriage into "a damned exciting relationship." It has also led to a startling willingness to forgo privacy. One of the children recently asked her father at dinner: "Dad, how often do you masturbate?" And the children's mother confides: "Once in a while at breakfast Jim'll say, 'Gosh, we had a good time in the sack last night, didn't we?' ' According to her, the girls...
Without at least a mail-order course in triadic dialectics, it is best to forgo analysis of Tournier's synthesis. Enough said that it has much to do with his notion that symbols have lives of their own and possess a diabolical potential. Yet in The Ogre, in contrast with his last book, Friday, Tournier seems incapable of expressing an idea without sacrificing art to pedagogy. As an old East Prussian aristocrat says just before the Russians do a Götterdammerung on his castle, "When the symbol devours the thing symbolized, when the cross-bearer becomes the crucified...
...brass stove, 3 in. by 5 in., which burns for 45 minutes on one-third of a pint of white gas: about $12. (U.S. forests no longer have wood to spare, so conscientious backpackers now forgo campfires...
Chicago's United America Bank needed no such carny-barker approach to create a run on the bank. To celebrate the firm's tenth anniversary, officials decided to forgo the standard promotional hoopla and instead advertised a money sale. Each of the first 35 customers in line last Wednesday morning got to purchase a $100 bill for $80. There were similar sales of descending denominations capped by the sale of 1,800 silver dollars at half price...