Word: micawberism
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JOHN LITHGOW The 3rd Rock from the Sun actor's Seussian rhymes made best sellers of The Remarkable Farkle McBride and Micawber. In I'm a Manatee a little boy dreams of a life of "gigan-atee" manatee proportions.
Fagin, Scrooge, Uriah Heep, Mr. Micawber and Mrs. Jellaby -- so many of Charles Dickens' great grotesques lurk in memory with the clarity of caricatures. They seem made not just for the page but for the stage and screen. As the great popular novelist of his or any age, Dickens has...
While the government blames the war for its economic ills, many Nicaraguans blame a centralized economy modeled after the Soviet system. Though Managua controls only 40% of the economy, prices and wages in the private sector are also set by the Sandinistas. The Soviet Union has underwritten most of the...
Charles Dickens drew Mr. Micawber straight from the outlines of his own bumbling, eternally optimistic father. When James Joyce created Simon Dedalus in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses, he took a cold look at his da and virtually transcribed the old man's...
Although the Proves seem uncertain about where to move next, their dogged persistence has earned them grudging respect from their adversaries. Says one leader of the I.R.A. Officials: "The Proves just keep punching along, like Mr. Micawber, hoping that something will turn up. But their big problem is that they...