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...could've been the bar. Working class saloons lend themselves to conversation. That's where the emphasis lies, along with drinking. Because there's no formal entertainment, one is left to produce his/her own. Hence, talking. Strip joints remove the concentration from booze to women; drinking becomes an undercurrent, guilt-ridden diversions. (My misgivings always begin upon entrance. How do you strike up a snappy conversation with somebody who's only a third dressed?) The point, finally, is after boozy camaderie, or friendly conversation. And, if not barmaids...
...money may eventually return, its absence now further restricts the supply of lendable funds. Interest rates have been going up on bonds and Treasury bills. Banks, for example, are paying higher interest on the certificates of deposit that they sell to investors than they are getting back when they lend the same money at the prime rate...
However, Postel stressed the important impetus the referendum results would lend to the entire study...
...LARGE PART OF Plumb's advantage comes from the nature of the history he studies. A liberal, an intellectual historian, a biographer of great men, Plumb's interests lend themselves to a more stylish treatment than do the concerns of some Marxist or mathematically inclined historians. Of course, plenty of men with Plumb's interests fail as literary stylists, and it is to Plumb's eternal credit that he writes as well as he does. The liberal essayist is a dying breed, and the essay itself seems to be a declining form, not replaced, certainly, by the new journalism...
...shallow to maintain only that Hesse, in his obsession with "his own consciousness and its place in a timeless reality," remains true to himself from start to finish. There is no denying that Hesse usually weaves an introspective tale and so it's only natural to make this theory lend Hesse's work a positive unity it is otherwise wholly lacking. There are, of course, several negative unifying factors: Ziolkowski ignores most of them...