Word: kleine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Early this year, Klein & Saks, a U.S. consultant firm, recommended an overhaul of Ecuador's antiquated tax structure, under which the rich minority get off easy. Three months ago, angling for Alliance for Progress aid, Velasco ordered new taxes. But instead of increasing the burden on the aristocracy, he slapped the little man with a series of excise taxes on 37 consumer items from soft drinks to lard. One levy even set tolls for the country's few paved roads, many of which were built with the $121 million in U.S. aid that Ecuador has received since World...
...Robert Klein's essay on Keats is another near miss. Able and incisive, it suffers from too much compression and occasional turgidity. In parts it seems that the critic was carried away by a desire to imitate the subject's poetry in his own prose. The content definitely suffers from lack of writing style...
Since its beginning in 1954, the group has toured the United States, Canada, Europe, New Zealand, and Australia. The members are Marc Gottlieb, violin; Vladmir Weissman, violin; William Soheon, viola; and Irving Klein, cello...
Died. Julius Klein, 74, economic troubleshooter, a Harvard professor called to the Commerce Department by Presidents Wilson and Hoover, later a freelance consultant who counseled both Peru and Chile to replace their state-controlled economies with free enterprise; of hepatitis; in San Francisco...
...novel's narrator; his blonde wife Antonia; his black-haired mistress, Georgie; their joint analyst, Anderson Palmer, a smooth, prosperous Freudian who, despite a "big white American smile," is also something of a warlock and misleads both women from couch to bed; Palmer's sister, Dr. Honor Klein, a notable witch and anthropologist given to fingering a samurai sword while talking of herself as a severed head (see Freud on Medusa, a character hopefully prompts the reader). Lynch-Gibbon, a glutton for grief, is, of course, transfixed by this menacing Gorgon. By what black psychological thimbleriggery their union...