Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FATHERS, by Herbert Gold. A nostalgic search for the essence of Jewish fatherhood by a loving son who tempers sentiment with just the right amount of irony and cynical insight...
...Fathers, Gold...
...swung the other Common Market Finance Ministers to the restrictive Gaullist recipe for monetary reform: larger credit facilities through the IMF. To achieve that, France merely dropped its two-year opposition to devising any contingency plans at all and its generally unpopular demand to study whether the price of gold should be raised. Comparing the Six's action to Britain's ill-fated prewar efforts to placate Adolf Hitler, Britain's weekly The Economist fumed: "Munich has once before been a synonym for the unsuccessful appeasement of unreason. It may have become so again...
Human Perfidy. The novelist or essayist is a careful householder, hoarding his resources; the aphorist tosses his shiny gold coins on the floor, seeking neither to save nor to order them. That is why the art of aphorism has rarely been considered major. Yet it is through his misanthropic aphorisms that Bierce should enter literature for keeps. The confident, eupeptic American spirit also has its dark side. And of those writers who chose to dwell on its shadows, few perceived or portrayed them with greater clarity than Bierce. His agonized view of human perfidy, which he found everywhere, raps imperatively...
...more champion. Cassius Clay, who had won 29 bouts in his professional career after taking the gold medal in Rome in 1960, was suddenly not a boxer anymore...