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Meyers' ingenious group portrait shows his subjects linked by a kinship of misery. Colleagues praised Roethke's hectic, incandescent verse and gossiped about his violent breakdowns. He described his electroshock therapy in rhyme: "Swift's servant beat him./ Now they use/ A current flowing/ From a fuse." The jolts were useless. He died of a sudden heart attack at 55. Jarrell was not content to be the best poetry reviewer of his time, says Meyers, "he had to be a great, perhaps the greatest poet -- or he was nothing." It was during one dark time that the writer, 51, fell...
There are many other Harvard things to do--reading Kant, retrieving our papers from the snickering computer, comping the Crimson. But going for coffee brings us together. We still use it as paper procrastination. We still use it as an escape from hectic schedules...
During the hectic start-up, the partners put in 16-hour days, which began early in the morning at farmers' markets and collective farms, where they paid premium prices for top-quality meat and produce. Says Fyodorov: "Before, we were accustomed to having somebody tell us everything. Now we have to think for ourselves." Despite the long line outside, Fyodorov worries. "Who knows how it will be a year from now? There are 50 other cooperatives planning to open restaurants in Moscow, and soon we'll face harsh old capitalist competition...
...TIME T shirt and beads of perspiration moisten her brow, but the figure crouched behind home plate is meticulous and imperturbable. Even on the diamond as catcher for TIME's softball team, Chief of Research Betty Satterwhite Sutter exudes the calm presence that she carries through hectic workdays. "I've been playing softball since I was eleven," says Satterwhite, who once won the team's most-improved-player award. "It helps me feel young. Besides, the camaraderie on our team, with people you work and play with, carries over into the office and helps me get through the rough times...
...Paris Club's schedule is likely to grow more hectic, if only because the Third World debt crisis, particularly in Latin America, is again worsening. Warns Pedro-Pablo Kuczynski, co-chairman of First Boston International in New York City: "Only if commodity prices rise faster than interest rates can Latin America make it." In other words, Jean-Pierre Marlet at the Club de Paris may be getting more misdialed calls than usual this year, and over at the Louvre, Jean-Claude Trichet may be working harder than ever...