Word: gripped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more physically demanding roles in the history of Broadway. Not only must he sing at great length?in a style that suggests Sammy Davis Jr. imitating Chuck Berry?but, in the torment of guilt, he hops and dances around like a man in the grip of epilepsy or leeches...
Four decades of Social Democrats have governed Sweden, but four generations of Wallenbergs have controlled much of it. In a country where socialism is as familiar as smorgasbord, the 202-year-old dynasty retains a remarkable grip: complete or partial control of 30 major Swedish firms, including nine of the country's 15 largest. For all the Wallenbergs' influence, the family bank, Stockholms Enskilda, is relatively small...
...socialist Sweden. The family owns enough stock to control only a few firms directly, including the Providentia and Investor holding companies. But those companies, in turn, have controlling interests in a number of other firms, and so on. That technique of effective control, known in Sweden as the Wallenberg Grip, is the embodiment of the Wallenbergs' family motto, Esse non Videri (To be, not to be seen...
...them with the other. In his conflicting role as women's liberator and amiable guardian of traditional femininity, Reuben asks: "Should a woman really do something as terrible as that?" Naturally, the good liberal doctor would not want to be responsible for the violent consequences of an unsure grip or poor aim directed at a moving target. His cop-out answer: "It's up to her. Being raped can be pretty terrible...
...background, Nick works at a book about Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy. In Powell, no such detail is ever incidental, and indeed, most of this novel's characters are pervaded by melancholy-in a Burtonian sense of the word-being in the grip of some disabling passion such as sorrow, fear or especially love. Powell's intricate music is still scored for a faintly ridiculous comic dance, but as it launches into the final movement there is a crescendo of grave, dark chords of mortality...