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...center of a writer's philosophical contribution in the writer's official statements of belief, he also recognizes the individual rather than society as the pivot of moral action. Harvard, product and producer of so many individuals of moral courage could have hardly desired a more honorable or a safer keeper of its place in the imaginative literature of America that The Sound and the Fury. In which Faulkner would have asserted to be a world in which no that is constant except human nature and a few of the marks an art makes with his pen, immortally...
...decline in sales of luxury tours. A Beverly Hills florist moaned: "People are still getting married, having babies and birthdays, but dammit, they're not saying it with flowers." (One jeweler reported a pickup in sales of diamonds, presumably to buyers who had decided that rocks are safer than stocks.) There were some other signs of consumer caution. Savings deposits in New York banks rose sharply in June, while applications for loans to buy expensive cars fell. A Boston banker reported that some of his customers were fattening their savings accounts with the proceeds of stock sales. In Detroit...
...better twin of boredom. When he retired in 1935, he was king of the world's matadors, more than a millionaire, a hero in his native Spain, spoken of in the same breath with Cervantes and Goya. But life grew dull as it grew safer. When a friend told him he had no choice but to die tragically, his answer held no other hope. "I'll see what I can do," Belmonte said...
...corridor flight plans that would put Soviet transport planes at precisely the same altitudes at precisely the same times previously allocated to Western aircraft. This maneuver turned out to be sheer bluff; the Russian flights usually were canceled at the last minute, or the pilots simply chose a distant, safer course. But Moscow now tried another nuisance technique...
...Poggi, 38, of the daily Dépêche d'Algérie (circ. 50,000). A gentle giant of a man who was born in Algiers and lived alone on the edge of the casbah, Poggi ignored the advice of friends that he move to a safer place. "The Moslems know me," he said, "and I know them." But that did not stop one of his neighbors from putting a bullet through Jean-Hubert Poggi's brain. Next was a reporter for Paris' Le Figaro, Jean-Claude Dadant, 26, gunned down as he left...