Word: runaways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sudden, the big question for Washington's economic policymakers is not how to slow down a runaway boom, but whether the boom has already run out of gas. Demand is tapering off even more rapidly than the policymakers think is necessary to quell inflation. Second-quarter figures, released last week, show the following...
...year-not counting inflation. A softer economy could aid the Administration's belatedly hardened price-control program, which can use all the help it can get. A failure to beat inflation now would lead to the worst of both worlds next year: recession and runaway prices at the same time...
...RUNAWAY HORSES by YUKIO MISHIMA...
...high price to pay for an artistic effect, but Mishima's death did at least serve to endow his last works, now being published in English translation, with an eerie sense of death anticipating art. This is especially true of Runaway Horses, the second volume of the tetralogy; for its subject is right-wing rebellion and, presented in weirdly loving detail, the beauties of seppuku (ritual suicide). Camus said that "suicide is something planned in the silence of the heart, like a work of art." In Mishima, for all of the peculiar sensationalism of his death, there...
That is, of course, lurid imagery as well-blood and the imperial sun. Mi-shima's sensibility was at once delicate and apocalyptic. Like Spring Snow, the first volume of The Sea of Fertility, Runaway Horses shivers with fragile yet highly wrought detail. Here Mishima also experiments, to lovely effect, with the Buddhist doctrine of reincarnation, lunuma, it seems, may be the reincarnation of Kiyoaki Matsugae, the doomed young lover of Spring Snow...