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Despite the advent of supertankers, nearly 90% of the world's ships could use the canal if it were to reopen. Even at the prewar depth of 38 ft., vessels of up to 125,000 tons can traverse the waterway in ballast, cutting off twelve days on the round trip between Europe and the Persian Gulf...
...executive spends much time talking with officials of other companies, because the tradition of cooperative effort has resulted in a clubby Japanese-industry organization. The prewar zaibatsu cartels of Mitsui, Mitsubishi and Sumitomo were broken up under the U.S. occupation and supposedly have come together again only loosely. But presidents...
Ford transformed these inner tensions into fiction that made him, at rare best, one of the finest novelists of the century. Parade's End, his tetralogy about a last Tory gentleman-the much-chivvied Christopher Tietjens-mirrors, with love and squalor, the death of prewar British society. The Good Soldier (1915) is so subtle and shapely a domestic tragedy that it very nearly makes good the narrator's extravagant claim: "The death of a mouse from cancer is the whole sack of Rome by the Goths, and I swear to you that the breaking up of our little...
When asked about the ostensible futility of having such obvious prewar speakers at Harvard, Pasztor asserted that "the facts will speak for themselves." He said that he had come to this conclusion after visiting South Vietnam for nine days over Christmas vacation...
...trying to resolve their pasts and their futures, the lights come up, the set changes, and the grim shattered playhouse is transformed into the gaudy palace of yesteryear. Follies becomes an old Follies show itself. The follies of the characters are now expressed in terms of the old prewar musical until finally the follies and the Follies merge into one surrealistic nightmare. The play within the play (titled "Loveland") is as depressing as anything I've seen in the recent months (and that says a hell of a lot). It is roughly a combination of No, No Nanette! and Satyricon...