Word: poloniuses
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Certainly any President, no matter what his means, is entitled to a retreat for himself and his family. And in the day of buy now, pay later, no one can insist that Presidents follow Polonius' puritanical advice: "Neither a borrower nor a lender be." Yet Presidents need to make their dealings as far beyond question as Nixon himself proposed when he first came to office...
Thus might a hip Polonius summarize the frenzied rise in U.S. interest rates. Last week the biggest U.S. corporations had to pay a record-and painful-8¾% to borrow from banks.* Some banks will raise that "prime" rate further to 9% this week; it could go higher still, perhaps to 9½% in the fall. The banks in turn had to pay as much as 10.3% to get money to lend; that was the highest rate offered last week to depositors who would buy $100,000 certificates of deposit (CDs). While borrowers and lenders alike groaned, savers rejoiced...
...English usage in the early sixteenth century, denoting the purity, soundness, and non-adulteration of anything from alcoholic brews to the Gospel. It soon became associated, most strikingly in Shakespeare, with the moral virtue of wholeness, integrity, lack of dissimulation or pretense. Trilling introduces his concept of sincerity through Polonius's sage advice to be "to thine own self true," that "thou canst not be false to any man." From this point on to its decline in the nineteenth century, the paradigm of sincerity was an idea of self imbedded in social consciousness, with a keen sense...
...territory, as if it were New England. And like Willy Loman, he is virtually humorless, unable to season his despair or get a proper perspective on himself. Because he is an extravert, Keach is weakest in the soliloquies, good in all the social scenes, the guying of Polonius, and brilliant in the duel with Laertes, which for feral second-to-second menace has never been better staged...
...some roguish interior humor and bursting into toothy, malicious glee. Given a riding crop, he might be the head of an old Hollywood studio rather than the ruler of a realm. An oddly placid Colleen Dewhurst makes Gertrude seem more the painted than the panting queen. Barnard Hughes' Polonius is the traditional chalk-dust didactician, but Kitty Winn's mad scene does not come a moment too soon for an Ophelia who makes one wonder what Hamlet ever...