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...Metropolitan's show, imported after a successful five-month run at the British Museum, offers us a different sort of Viking: the monster chez lui, a more conscientious and stolid fellow, the rude ancestor of the modern Volvo executive. He does not even have a horned helmet -a Wagnerian embellishment on the plain iron cap he actually wore in battle. He plows his acres; he makes crude wooden boxes with crude iron tools. His wife has a comb and looks like Bjorn Borg in drag. Living in a permanent crisis economy, he believes in bullion as a hedge against...
...feisty independence or genuine dissatisfaction with the alternatives presented to the voters. But in Javits' case, it seems to be little more than the pique of an old man who does not want history to read that he was voted out of office. The New York voters were rude to their senior senator when they handed him a primary defeat on September 9, and he seems to be reciprocating in kind...
...churchyard "contained the bones of the earliest settlers, the men who made Cambridge--of a governor of the colony, judges, president of Harvard, professors and men of learning and of wealth. Here too were laid to rest their children, those who could not bear the rude blasts of the New England winter." As Longfellow later remarked, the yard included "their smiling babes, their cherished brides, the patriarchs of the town...
...educated his audience to his own wants. He expects punctuality, and latecomers are made aware of their transgressions by being kept from their seats until there is a proper pause onstage. He then demands that, barring illness or death, everyone stay for the last curtain call; there is no rude rushing for the exits as the actors are taking their bows, a bad but common practice in most other theaters. When he was younger, Price once pushed an early riser back into his seat; he almost got a black eye in return. Now he merely points to such people, imperiously...
...colleagues at the bank, he was unquestionably a whiz at finance, but around the office he seemed to some more like a human buzz saw-pugnacious, cutting, even on occasion rude. Yet apparently the very qualities that wound up costing A. Robert Abboud, 51, his post in April as the $265,000-a-year chairman of First Chicago Corp., the nation's ninth largest bank holding company, have landed him another top job at nearly twice his old salary. His new employer: Los Angeles-based Occidental Petroleum Corp., the nation's twelfth largest oil company...