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...strongly autobiographical nature of Hesse's later stories. Whether Hesse recognized that he was no 'true poet,' or not, it is a fact that the problems in most of his stories, are, to some degree, his own problems. This makes it harder to clearly separate the inadequacies of the hopeless romantics he tries to describe from Hesse's own inadequacies as a writer...
...voluntary euthanasia; one week later the foundation had 3,000 members. The Minister of Justice took to television to debate the question. He conceded that there is no legal problem with the widespread practice of so-called passive euthanasia -the withholding of medicines and other life supports in hopeless cases. But active euthanasia such as Dr. Postma's? He could not envision the "legal possibility. Where would that lead...
Postulate a neurotic, hopeless main character, then spend 200 pages proving that the character is hopeless and neurotic. Occasionally a novelist succeeds with such an attenuation of the obvious. Joan Didion did, after a fashion, with Play It As It Lays. In this sour, stunted, perfunctory tale of a numbed rich boy, Jerzy Kosinski does...
Since its inception, GEPI has received more than 200 applications for help, of which 50 have been accepted and another 50 are still under consideration. Some 80 companies were turned down as hopeless cases, and another 20 had to go elsewhere for treatment; one of GEPI'S ground rules is that a patient cannot be accepted unless there is a demonstrably good chance of recovery. GEPI'S usual therapy is to use government money to buy a minority, or in some cases a majority holding in an ailing company. Whenever possible the agency tries to find private firms...
...step through law school and into a job as law clerk with the prestigious New York City law firm of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn. Young Roosevelt soon began telling fellow law clerks that he planned to follow in Cousin Theodore's footsteps. The first step was a seemingly hopeless contest for the state senate. But F.D.R. won as a progressive Democrat -thanks largely to the gusto of his campaign-and immediately plunged into a dangerous scrap with Boss Murphy's Tammany Hall over the selection of a U.S. Senator. Some of the book's best passages relate intricate...