Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...excitement is relentless. Jacques Roux (Robert Fields), the mad priest of the insurrection, bursts in straitjacketed and has to be crushed. Deperret (Joseph Hindy), an "erotomaniac" whom Brook equipped with a perpetual erection, urges Charlotte to return to Caen; he forgets himself and nearly rapes her. Sade is whipped -- in London and New York with Corday's flowing hair, since the decency laws forbade public flagellation -- and here with a lash of six flat leather tails. Marat sinks into darkness and confronts the ghosts of his past, who slander his childhood, and Voltaire and Lavoisier, who mock his scientific achievements...
...MERCHANT BANKERS by Joseph Wechsberg. 365 pages. Little, Brown...
...rate was no higher than it had been at the start of the year. Lagging demand for steel, the economy's most basic ingredient, last week prompted giant U.S. Steel Corp. to announce plans to close its National Works near Pittsburgh. "Across the board," said Inland Steel Chairman Joseph Block, "the pace of new orders is not up to where we thought it would...
...Question of Price. Washington seems delighted with the slight autumn chill. "The trend," insisted Treasury Under Secretary Joseph Barr, "is definitely toward a rate of growth which the economy can sustain." Added Chief Presidential Economic Adviser Gardner Ackley: "The economy today is pretty much what I like...
...this series of essays, New Yorker Correspondent Joseph Wechsberg examines seven of the world's leading merchant or investment bankers. Though he is himself the son and grandson of bankers, Wechsberg ignores a lot of the basics of the business and, with the exception of a chapter on Wall Street's Lehman Brothers, shortchanges the potent U.S. bankers to concentrate on those of London's City. But his stories have a richness of color and some details of remarkable deals that have turned money into factories, jobs and useful products for everybody's compound interest...