Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHEN All About H. Hatterr was first published in 1948, it received almost universally favorable critical notices. It was immediately successful, and seemed likely to establish its author as a first-rank novelist. But because of the strange interactions of whimsical public tastes and the mechanics of the modern publishing world, it slipped into literary limbo, becoming another in the long list of "underground classics...
...affairs of state with his wife; she learned of the attack on Pearl Harbor on the radio. But on the day of Japan's surrender her husband was more communicative. By then, because of military setbacks, he had been dismissed as Premier, had lost his general's rank and had been ousted from other government posts. They listened together to the radio announcement by Emperor Hirohito. As she remembers, Tojo received the news calmly and took another cup of coffee and a cigarette, his only luxuries, to help him to formulate his thoughts...
...have four years in the Service ahead of you, you just "don't make waves." Wars may take place and you may help sail the ship that launches the planes that fire the bombs, but the real war takes place every day between you and the people a rank above you. And, as in any war, the goals are to win-to get six hours of sleep or eat three meals or to make it off ship when you can-or to salvage something, at least to come away some part of the person you once were...
However, the near collapse of the U.S. (and Japanese) stock market together with a steady continuing deterioration in the liquidity position of the dollar, plus the reluctant relative militance of labor leaders under fire from the rank and file, inspired anxious financiers collected in Brussels last month to renew demands for stiffer doses of the control medicine in the U.S. itself. Indeed, given the institutionalized vacillation in Washington on tax and spending austerity measures (the Congressional cave-in summarized in the tax reform collage of last year and the Nixon Administration's surrender to cost-plus defense contractors) leading financial...
...firm whose members contributed handsomely to the political campaigns of a state senator and of the state treasurer who granted the loans. Both are Republicans; so is John King. He contributed $250,000 to Richard Nixon's 1968 campaign, and was the President's representative with the rank of ambassador to Japan's Expo '70. King denies that he had anything to do with arranging the loans; but some critics charge that political influence was used to get them...