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...sharp wind scatters the paper along Landsdowne Street behind Fenway Park. Once the street was a sea of fans, breaking against the left field wall, impatient to pour in and sweep the Sox to World Series victory. Now the Series is over, the waves subsided, the street dark and deserted...
Where such playwrights as Christopher Fry and T. S. Eliot tried to pour drama into forms of poetry that could be swallowed as painlessly as prose, Pinter has achieved a more subtly musical poetry of rhythms, an antiphony of repetitions and pauses. Each of his plays seems composed, as well as written...
Mighty Theme. Styron's passions seem to be confined largely to the printed page. The darker emotions-fury, despair, guilt-pour through all of his works, but Styron himself projects the reserved, slightly courtly manner of the storybook Virginian. It is a coincidence that his book should come on the heels of the summer riots. While Styron does not condone the violence, he views it through a chilling perspective sharpened by his five years with Nat Turner. The Negro extremist, says Styron, "is purifying himself by violence of a sense of his own abject self-ratedness...
...other, he was busy building, investing most of his oil earnings in development instead of armaments, plants instead of planes. He decreed a radical land reform, gave women equal rights and promoted education at every level. By creating a climate of stability, he has induced private foreign investors to pour $1.3 billion into Iran. Having visited 57 countries, he has used personal diplomacy to put Iran on good terms with most of the world. Although a Moslem, he has steered carefully clear of the Arab-Israeli conflict. He ships oil to Israel, but has made friends (and exchanged visits) with...
...stock, the more costly the call-sometimes as much as 20% of its current value. In its last study of the option market, the SEC found that only 40% of put and call options are exercised. "We are asked over and over whether we are encouraging people to pour money down a rathole," admits Paul Farmer, head of Goodbody & Co.'s option department. Farmer does not think so. "The problem," he says, "is to teach people how to use options." By doing that, brokerage firms figure they can expand the market...