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Laureate of this industry is Pulitzer-prizewinning Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. of the City University of New York, whose three-volume Age of Roosevelt appeared between 1956 and 1960 and established the now prevalent view that Roosevelt was the savior of both capitalism and democracy. The American system had totally broken down, Schlesinger argued, and both conservatives and radicals were well on the way to convincing the world that there was no middle way between ideological extremes. Roosevelt proved otherwise. Said Schlesinger: "In the welter of confusion and ignorance, experiment corrected by compassion was the best answer...
...meantime, Marathon directors quickly began considering their options for the next step. Many companies at this stage start looking for a so-called white knight, a firm willing to offer a higher price or more attractive merger conditions. Marathon's choices for such a savior are limited to a few giant corporations, mostly other oil companies, that have the financial resources to outbid Mobil. So far, however, no public candidates have come forward...
...still is one of the finest medieval objects in America. It is unsettling as well, since much of its complicated biblical and patristic symbolism insists that the Jews were the killers of Christ and thus an accursed people, so detestable that the usual inscription over the crucified Savior's head, "King of the Jews," appears as "King of the Confessors." If ever one needed proof that a work of art can be both aesthetically ravishing and morally vile, the cross supplies...
Christgau. The name alone conjures up both savior and fascist. Yet he mercifully falls somewhere in between. Explicit about his point of view ("equal" with rock fans), open about his limitations (the fact that grading albums could land him 6-7 B-plusses a week), and unabashed in his literary style (the construction of new words like "semipopular"--and the use of simile--like Mott the Hoople's "Rock and Roll Queen" is to "Star fucker" as Bad Company is to the Rolling Stones), this man is everything a rock critic should be, without any of the pretensions to which...
...winged geezer remains, living quietly for the most part with a litter of dragon cubs. Understandably, even one fire-breathing creature has the locals a little unnerved, especially since once a month, their ruler picks a young maiden to be fed to the beast. Thus the search for a savior begins, setting up the required battle of good versus evil...