Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jagged, episodic structure of Compulsion constantly stresses the factual, historical, documentary nature of the narrative. It no less constantly' proclaims the strength of the subject matter-its ability to vibrate and electrify as theater-and the weakness, its inability to widen and deepen as drama. The cause is less the usual documentary one, that truth tends to be formless, than that in Compulsion truth lacks a spacious enough frame of reference...
...state of the defense program, trouble in the Middle East, fears that the Federal Reserve's tight-money policy might be triggering a recession. "Business is not that bad," said James Crane Kellogg III, chairman of the Board of Governors of the New York Stock Exchange. "As a matter of fact, it's good." The facts showed that business, moving at historically high levels, was indeed far better (see below) than business sentiment. Yet Wall Street, which likes to talk of the investor's lack of knowledge, could blame itself for much of the gloom. From brokerage...
...critics. Detroit's designers have been fooling the U.S. public for years. They argue that the rapid development of the foreign small-car market (estimated 1957 sales: 225,000) is a vote against ever-longer, ever-fancier Detroit designs. Actually, say the U.S. automen, it is a simple matter of economics. Though a small car costs almost as much to build as a big car, companies would produce them if the market ever demanded it. But the U.S. public still wants its cars big-like its country. "People want big things.'' says Walker. "They want big clocks...
McNulty, himself an ex-altar boy (at St. Mary's, Lawrence, Mass.) fell into no better company than his own. He was a man much loved by newspapermen, horse-players, bartenders, dogs, writers, children and other odd characters who knew him. He had the weaknesses of his subject matter, but like the work of his own "sour-beer artist" (see glossary) his apparently sloppy words came out in (crystal. Unfortunately, the total recall of irrelevant detail which is wonderful in the saloon anecdotes is a bit of a bore in McNulty's journalistic pieces. Irish writers like McNulty...
Rapidly it becomes clear that T.T.'s bank, like the Musical Bank in Samuel Butler's Erewhon, deals not only in money but in moral imponderables. For the Soviet banker, unbalanced books are a small matter, but the failure to balance the books of the sacred Marx-Lenin-Stalin writings may prove fatal. The action dissolves in a mirage of Marxist motivation: whom to bribe with what is the problem. Thus, to buy silence, the television set goes to a despised subordinate, a piano to someone else, a raccoon coat to a third. Simochka is saved...