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...three generations of Baptist-preacher ancestors. He neither smoked nor drank, and for years demanded the same abstemious conduct from his employees. "I believe in adherence to the Golden Rule, faith in God and the country," he often said. "I would rather be known as a Christian than a merchant...
...direct actions which are emotionally arousing but possess a sort of integrity: they don't score moral points. At one moment, a Teutonic Savanarola is thrown onto a witch's pyre of his own fashion, but there is no audience gratification-this though the priest, aside from the town merchant, is the film's leading villain. The motivations are too involved, and the action itself is one which goes beyond personal conflict; it is treated as such. Like a good old Warner Brothers hack, Clavell lets the atmosphere seep in as his story rides, doesn't try to obfuscate...
Bank combinations are taking a variety of new forms, cutting across rivalries as well as boundaries. Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale, for instance, joined with National Westminster, Chase Manhattan and the Royal Bank of Canada to start "Orion." The constellation is divided into three parts: a commercial bank, a merchant bank, and a marketing wing that will steer customers of the four shareholding banks to Orion. Another new banking combine is London Multinational, which is backed by Baring Brothers, New York's Chemical Bank, Credit Suisse, and Chicago's Northern Trust. Still another grouping, called Atlantic International, brings together, among...
...Jules Verne's legendary globe circler, Phileas Fogg, 98 years ago, U.S. Humorist SJ. Perelman plans to step out of London's Reform Club and go around the world in 80 days. No more, no less. Fogg, said Verne, employed "steamers, railways, carriages, yachts, merchant vessels, sledges, elephants." As far as possible, 66-year-old Circumnavigator Perelman will confine himself to such modes in following Fogg's itinerary. In place of Fogg's famed manservant, Passepartout, Perelman prefers female traveling companionship. Though he has had "five applications for the post from various birds," he says...
...best poets, was touched with such divine madness. Born in 1891, he became an Acmeist, one of a group of poets who reacted against the excess vagaries of the Symbolists by celebrating the palpability of things in clear, earthy language. Although the son of a Jewish leather merchant, Mandelstam was most at home in classical Christian humanism. A rose was a rose because of its petals and perfume, not because it stood for something else...