Word: muriel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Only Problem, Muriel Spark's latest novel, slides by with the elegant concision of a parable. Spark's economical narration, piercing judgment, and marvelous ear give her story the easy-to-watch quality of a cartoon, while the explicit statement of her concerns evokes a depth which is left for the reader to supply. Reading her novel is like looking at the reflections on the surface of a slow, but full and moving stream...
...ONLY PROBLEM by Muriel Spark; Putnam; 179 pages...
...Muriel Spark's 17th novel is informed with that perception. Her central character is a pained, Job-like figure regarded in a comic light, as if, between losses, he is playing God's fool. It is a difficult role. Harvey Gotham is a wealthy scholar-dilettante who retires to rural France in his mid-30s. There he occupies himself with a monograph on the riddle of universal suffering: If the Lord is beneficent, why does his earth contain so much misery? On the bestseller list that conundrum is called When Bad Things Happen to Good People. Here...
...Some schools just won't have discriminatory practices scrutinized," Muriel M. Spence, legal counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union, said...
...Institution economist, estimates that the 4,000 U.S. thrifts will lose $9 billion between 1981 and 1983, cutting their collective net worth in half, because they are paying high interest rates to attract deposits but collecting low interest on many old mortgage loans. Says New York State Bank Superintendent Muriel Siebert: "I can see 600 to 700 thrifts going down the drain this year, and maybe another 1,100 in 1983." The prospect appears to be causing some people to worry about the safety of their savings for the first time since the 1930s, even though deposits in thrift institutions...