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...rate, Colicos Macbeth is considerably younger than usual, though not at all invalid for being so. This Macbeth is a man of extra-ordinary physical energy, and one can understand at once why he has been so heroic a general in the field. Colicos makes clear that Macbeth would never have fallen into a career of evil if he had not been forcefully pushed into it by his wife (in fact, the early reign of the historical Macbeth was admirable--one of several aspects of Holinshed's Chronicles that Shakespeare suppressed or changed). This is not to deny Macbeth...
...theory of medicine. Healthy people are sick people who don't know it. One patient after another marches into his office, and with about as much trouble as it takes to persuade an arsonist to set a fire, Dr. Knock convinces each one that he is a near-invalid. Within weeks, the doctor has half the town in bed and a fortune in fees...
Beset by war, the Vietnamese piaster fell 38.6%. That chronic invalid, the Brazilian cruzeiro, lost another 31.8% of its value in 1966, and thus would pay for only 2% of the goods and services it could command a decade...
...housing industry and "lead to an intolerable housing shortage in the years ahead." Last week in the Senate, Alabama Democrat John Sparkman's housing subcommittee resumed what promises to be a lengthy search for cures. Most of the witnesses agreed that mortgages have become the chronic invalid of finance because of structural flaws in the mortgage market. "Under present regulations of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, the growth in savings and loan associations that supported home-mortgage financing is past," warned Washington Economist Robinson Newcomb. According to Newcomb, the "future looks dark" unless there are "changes...
...wrathful God who visited the sins of the fathers on the sons. In later life, she developed an odd, quasi-mystical faith of her own, and she has woven its demons and angels, its swans and minarets into her patchwork chronicles. She learned how to sew because, though an invalid, she was forced to serve as her father's assistant in his tailor shop during World...