Word: roth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When She Was Good, Roth...
...When She Was Good, Roth...
Time for a Fix. Finally, the crescendo of bargaining-table bluff, bravado and compromise came to an end. U.S. Chief Negotiator William M. Roth said in Washington, while Deputy W. Michael Blumenthal handled the signing, that under the new deal the industrial nations of the Kennedy Round would come out pretty much "in balance." The Common Market, long under fire for its unconscionably discriminatory duties, will gradually revert to the low tariff level of Germany in pre-Common Market days. Still, the Six would not tinker at all with high rates on electronic computers, automated machine tools, helicopters and other...
...some time before businessmen can get an accurate fix on how individual industries and companies come off under the new rules. Negotiator Roth's Washington office has set up a special phone number (202-395-3044) for specifics on the new U.S. duties, which cover imports worth $8 billion a year. But details on the revised tariffs of each of the 49 Kennedy Round nations, which affect $40 billion in annual trade, may be some time in getting around: covering thousands of farm and factory items in painstaking detail, the entire list runs to 4,000 pages...
...real case against Lucy is not that she is "unsympathetic"-some of the greatest characters in fiction are-but that she is theatrically unsatisfying and an ear-jarring bore. Saddest of all, Philip Roth's second novel starts beautifully, with a fine evocation of the Wisconsin mood and climate and the skillful and sympathetic drawing of Willard Carroll, an assistant postmaster, one of the few "good" men in contemporary fiction. But then Lucy, Carroll's granddaughter, takes over in a truly venomous fashion, and the book strives embarrassingly to become a Midwestern Madame Bovary. It is bewildering that...