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Byron's view prevailed. By tearing out passages from diaries and journals and keeping the lid on their less savory memories, Shelley's intimates created a marzipan myth to be consumed in Victorian parlors. The poet, so the story went, was only nominally a seducer, de facto bigamist and flaming revolutionary. In reality he was, as Matthew Arnold wrote, "an ineffectual angel...
...stresses in Common Sense II that the "best kept secret in America" is that workers are perfectly capable of managing factories--in fact more capable than management. He reports that several major corporations have experimented with worker control but have decided to pull back and try to keep a lid on the programs because they were too successful and would undermine management authority. He goes on to argue that the resources necessary for life in society belong to all members of society and that workers should thus throw off the burden of private ownership of industry...
...more than a year Colby was able to keep the lid on. Seymour Hersh of the New York Times first heard of the salvage operation's code name, "Project Jennifer," but without details...
...recruited to lend a little weight to a mean, shallow and indifferent enterprise. The Prisoner of Second Avenue is a listless nervous-breakdown farce, adapted by Neil Simon from his play about the traumas and indignities of living in Manhattan. Jack Lemmon, unwired and wrung out, appears as an lid executive who loses his job and proceeds to crack under all the usual New York tensions, from unruly cab drivers to walls that crack like eggshells, from vicious neighbors to violence in Central Park. Bancroft plays his wife, loving and impatient and reasonably brave, who sees him through the crisis...
...handed Penn shooters fell behind from the start, and were not able to remove the lid from the basket until late in the second half. By that time the Tigers had already rolled up what proved to be an insurmountable lead...