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Benn's story, that of a comfortably aging man pulled into the muck of life by an avid and avaricious young wife, was hilarious when Chaucer included it in The Canterbury Tales, and it still seems none the worse for wear. Bellow's contribution to this hoary tale lies in Kenneth's fumbling, long-winded ^ attempts to get it told. "I take very little pleasure in theories," he announces at the beginning, "and I'm not going to dump ideas on you." After incessant theorizing and idea dumping, he confesses toward the end, "As is evident by now, I have...
...John Maynard Keynes--civil servants and diplomats jumped at the opportunity to work for the Europeans from central offices in Paris and Washington. The excitement over the implementation of the plan reflected the nation's belief at the time "that intelligent action can be immensely helpful and not just muck things up," says Professor of History Charles S. Maier, who is currently working on a history...
...even of the worst, seems preferable. Tom describes a sunfish caught in a local bayou: "The colors will fade in minutes, but for now the fish looks both perfectly alive yet metallic, handwrought in Byzantium and bejeweled beyond price, all the more amazing to have come perfect from the muck." An engineered life would leave no room or tolerance for such perceptions...
What, then, are we to make of Indra's Daughter's experiences among the suffering humans? She can escape this dreadful life and we, miserable human beings, can't. Fortunately, though, we have such imaginative production as A Dream Play to help us laugh through the muck as we live through this life in Hell...
...scandal could also have serious political repercussions for the financial community's traditional allies in the Conservative Party of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who must call national elections by the summer of 1988. "There's bound to be political fallout," says a prominent London banker. "The muck will be raked by the media and the opposition parties, and some of it will stick." Though no government official has been implicated, Roy Hattersley, deputy leader of the opposition Labor Party, has charged that support for the City's "sleazy undercurrent of corruption is the inevitable extension of Tory economic philosophy...