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Early in the morning, executives are all business. Chitchat is kept to a minimum, and participants go right to work. Notes Rob Cornell, marketing director of Chicago's Ritz-Carlton hotel, where breakfast meetings have doubled in the past few years: "People are fresher in the morning...
...categories, competition for copies will drive up prices and may drive out investors without cash reserves. But the bibliophiles should not lose heart. The bulls may be loose in the bookshops, but they will pass on to fresher collectibles-Sony Walkmans, early videotapes. The real enthusiasts will reap the rewards-like the Manhattan dowager who a few years ago sold her signed first edition of A Tale of Two Cities. Told that the money would have appreciated more in a savings account, she replied, "But I so much prefer reading Dickens to my passbook." Of course, if she had chosen...
This year's Faculty agenda may center around issues left over from last year, but next year's actually looks fresher. Sidney Verba '53, the new associate dean of the Faculty for undergraduate education and chairman of the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE), will kick off discussion with CUE on what he calls "the rules relating to college study...
...Bishop has written about these people elsewhere. His accounts of his own maddening family seem fresher. His father was a 250-lb. police lieutenant who read the Encyclopaedia Britannica volume by volume. He moved in across town with a neighbor's wife when Jim was a boy, and came slinking back 16 years later, his police career wrecked by the scandal. After Bishop's first wife died in 1957, he married the divorced wife of a cousin, scandalizing his Irish Catholic relatives only slightly less than his father...
...world-class praise. It is good that English-speaking readers can finally join this celebration and sad that they must come so late. Some of the novel's topicality has dimmed over the years; memories of Juan Perón's early days in power were fresher and more highly charged when Sábato wrote than they can be now. Immersed as it is in politics and history, On Heroes and Tombs has itself become something of a historical artifact...