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Waiting for Arthur. This impasse confers a greater than usual power on seven secretive men who sit in a mock Grecian temple on Constitution Avenue. As governors of the Federal Reserve Board, they have always functioned as a supreme court of money. Today, the Federal Reserve's power to control the flow of new money into business and influence interest rates for lending makes it about the only arm of Government left with much room to maneuver in trying to steer the economy. As businessmen watch their profits drop, investors see stock prices sink, and housewives note other prices...
Boghosian's own roots were far removed from Grecian lore. The son of an Armenian cobbler, he grew up in New Britain, Conn. After a stint in the Navy, he attended college under the G.I. Bill, finishing up with a year under the "hard but kind" tutelage of Bauhaus Master Josef Albers at Yale. Now 43, he teaches sculpture himself at Dartmouth. He first became interested in Orpheus during college days, and printed a small portfolio of woodcuts, accompanied by his own poetry. Years later, while he was picking up driftwood on a Provincetown beach, the story of Orpheus...
...pictured in black trousers and no shoes on pages 10 and 13 of the section, and, according to LaBour, "dead men are buried in black trousers and without shoes." Also on page 13, there are a pair of empty shoes to Paul's left, which, LaBour wrote, "were a Grecian symbol of death." Paul is holding, a wreath on page 24, in addition to wearing a black carnation...
...children, he is now suffering an ugly species of character assassination that in many ways he brought upon himself. However much he has fallen in public esteem, it is probably in the deeper recesses of his own mind that Kennedy is suffering most and experiencing the harshest judgments. The Grecian aspects of the family's tragedies shade here into the existential. There is nothing heroic about fencing with half-truths, falsehoods, omissions, rumors, insinuations of cowardice...
...four o'clock the brigade commander, Lieut. Colonel Lambert Ihenacho, drove up in a camouflaged Land Rover with ammunition. The cartridges were counted out like gold nuggets, the .30-cal. machine gun ammunition belts handled like so many rare Grecian urns. Ihenacho, at 25 the youngest brigade commander in the Biafran army, supervised the process, his hands on the grip of a captured submachine gun. Then Ihenacho led the way up the trail leading to the village. The path was lined with civilians, young and old. "They help carry out the wounded," the colonel explained as he politely murmured...