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Updike's vision is a modest one, humorously self-tolerant, seeing in the writer's work a way of life which, if no longer world-jarring, is at least meaningful to himself and a few others. The heyday of the Victorian novel is past; the effort to capture the rush of perishable existence died with Joyce and Lawrence; the author-as-hero is gone with Camus and Hemingway; and in their place is now the professional writer, making a living like anyone else. This is a truthful image because, as Updike remarks in "One Big Interview...
Tender Trap. The fight illustrates a major U.S. business trend: not since the heyday of corporate raiding in the 1950s have there been so many attempts at "unfriendly" takeovers-those that are resisted by the management of the company being acquired. Instead of staging a proxy fight, today's takeover artist usually asks stockholders to "tender" him their shares for purchase at a fixed price by a set date. A decade ago, tender offers were practically unheard of. But a record 113 offers were registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission during the fiscal year that ended June...
What is most apparent in this year's report is that the 1960s heyday of government and foundation support to private universities is definitely over, and that pressures are now upon other components within the University to derive adequate monetary support...
...James. As he worked toward a full professorship (in 1948 he became the first Jew to receive tenure in the English department) Trilling slowly gained the reputation of someone more than a courtly scholar. His doctoral dissertation on Matthew Arnold was published in 1939-in the heyday of the textual analyses by the New Criticism-and it restated the Arnoldian creed that "a work of literature ... has value as a criticism of life...
...years ago in Berkeley; he has little to fear, however, from the student vote today in Cambridge. Students here, for reasons that extend far beyond voting restrictions, have never been a major force in this city's political process, except possibly through their disruption of that process during the heyday of radical activity...