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Four of Chaucer's tales are told: the Miller's, the Steward's, the Merchant's and the Wife of Bath's. The dialogue is all in rhyming couplets, which is rather like spending the evening on a date with a metronome. The stories mainly feature an aging cuckold, a harridan somewhat uglier than sin, and a blonde mini-bombshell named Sandy Duncan, whom nature has cunningly fashioned for everything except acting. In the key roles of the Steward and the Wife of Bath, George Rose and Hermione Baddeley are formidable contenders for a much...
...strongly is the Jew identified with the merchant image that Negroes frequently use anti-Semitic epithets in referring to ghetto businessmen who are unmistakably not Jewish. A Negro will frequently refer to his "Jew landlord" even though the man's name may be O'Reilly, Karwolski or Santangelo. In black areas of Detroit, white storekeepers are often called "Goldberg," even though many shops are owned by Iraqis and Syrians. And a Cadillac, even if it is owned by a wealthy Negro, is still known as a "Jew canoe...
...West Africa. Some 2,000 miles of road, paved or not, are open, three railway spurs lead to rich inland iron-ore mines, and low shipping-registration fees (which netted the government $3,000,000 last year) give Liberia, in name anyway, the world's biggest merchant fleet. Although only 5% of the population is literate, some 1,600 youngsters have been or are being educated abroad, and Tubman says ruefully: "I'm committing political suicide. These boys will come back experts, and I know nothing but the Bible...
Broken Rules. Goffman's search for the key to this nonverbal language began at the University of Chicago. Born 46 years ago, in Mannville, Alberta, the son of a dry-goods merchant, he graduated from the University of Toronto and went to Chicago for dissertation work in sociology. There he came under the influence, which he fully acknowledges, of Charles Horton Cooley and G. H. Mead, whose theories on personal interaction, small groups and the social character of the self still inform sociology courses. An energetic and devoted scholar who avoids formal social gatherings, Goffman is currently a research...
...credit by Western lenders to an East bloc country. Three months ago, its U.S. affiliate bought the Georg Jensen chain of New York-area specialty shops. And next week the Rothschilds will join as a junior partner with the U.S.'s Manufacturers Hanover Trust in opening a new merchant bank in London, thus completing a typical round-the-world circle...