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...tragedy resides in the fact of Willy's death (a fact we know to be impending from the very start), rather than in the nature of his life, in the horror of a man as he watches the utter wasteland of his life come crashing through his last remaining Maginot line of self-delusion. The crucial point here is that Willy is not just a broken-down salesman--he never was a salesman. For he finds the proposition which his brother Charley puts to him, that "the only thing you got in this world is what you can sell," intolerably...
...scared to go to the brink, you are lost," Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said of the crisis, thus arousing anxious critics to denounce him for what they called "brinkmanship." Today, these half-forgotten pinpoints of land rank with the Rock of Gibraltar and the Maginot Line as among the world's most notable military anachronisms. Yet they are still guarded by an intrepid army of some 100,000 Chinese Nationalists, who are sporadically shelled every other day from the Communist mainland. TIME Correspondent Roy Rowan visited Quemoy and filed the following report...
...block its advance, the report recommends setting up a kind of anti-bee Maginot Line across the natural bottleneck of Central America. All it would take is the development of a completely new species whose dominant traits would make it "relatively unaggressive, nonswarming, nonmigratory and equal to the Brazilian bee in foraging activity." This "genetic barrier" would in effect tame the Brazilian bee by breeding out the worst qualities...
...never saw the Germans," says one Frenchman. Says another: "I saw too many." Former Premier Pierre Mendès-France flashes on-screen recalling, in 1969, that during the 1939 "phony war," Paris ladies actually raised money for planting rose bushes along the Maginot Line-to reduce the ennui of the poilus stationed there. German newsreel footage switches from scenes of fresh, blond Wehrmacht soldiers swinging through France in 1940 to captured black French colonial troops, as a Nazi propaganda sound track mockingly quotes Neville Chamberlain: "We and our allies are the guardians of civilization against barbarism." What was your...
...assumption-that socially responsible organizations are relatively risky and unprofitable investments-is just as questionable, Blue-chip stocks, once considered the safest and best bet, are no longer sure moneymakers. As Forbes magazine noted in an editorial last year, the concept of blue-chip stocks "as a kind of Maginot Line behind whose ramparts [investors] could sit safe and sound" is obsolete. Blue-chip companies like GM are not only offensive; they are also often unprofitable...