Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Arthur Burns succeeded William McChesney Martin in 1970 as head of the Federal Reserve Board, he had a tough act to follow. After 19 years in the job. Martin had made his name synonymous with sound money management. When Burns himself steps down at the end of this month, his successor, G. William Miller, will find Burns' show quite as difficult to top. As chairman of the Reserve, Arthur Burns was final arbiter of the nation's money supply through eight of the most tumultuous years in economic history-years marred alternately, or sometimes simultaneously, by double...
...Western democracies, but one battle was won in that war. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt bravely outplayed the Palestinian terrorists who skyjacked a Lufthansa airliner in October, saving the lives of 86 with a commando attack at Mogadishu, Somalia. Soon afterward, however, the body of Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer, who had been kidnaped by Baader-Meinhof gangsters six weeks earlier, was found in the trunk of an abandoned car in France...
Sourest Big Apple (and Biggest Bomb): Martin Scorsese's New York, New York...
FICTION Daniel Martin by John Fowles. With little of the narrative trickery that embellished The Magus, the author sends a Hollywood screenwriter on an engrossing psychological pilgrimage that undermines contemporary modish despair. Falconer by John Cheever. The loneliness of prison and memories is the theme of this deeply emotional novel. The Honourable Schoolboy by John le Carré. The further adventures of George Smiley, Britain's unlikeliest superspy, as well as a pitiless dissection of contemporary moral dilemmas. The Professor of Desire by Philip Roth. In presenting yet another of his Jewish intellectual heroes wrestling with sex and guilt...
...Daniel Martin, Fowles...