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Does the poet's work redeem the poet's mess? Sexton was working in a rich literary tradition. Her immediate American predecessors were not a wholesome precedent: John Berryman (alcoholic, suicide), Robert Lowell (episodically psychotic), Delmore Schwartz (alcoholic), Theodore Roethke (manic-depressive), Elizabeth Bishop (alcoholic). Sexton had shrewd instincts. "With used furniture he makes a tree," she wrote. "A writer is essentially a crook." Maybe...
Jonathan A. Schwartz...
...about 20 miles away at Disney World, many tourists hold just the opposite: the best place to vacation is the place where you can only dream of living. "It brings you back to a moral, clean time that today we've lost," says Shirley Schwartz, 44, of Wayne, N.J. Praise of Disney World by its patrons often turns into condemnation of the disorder and unsightliness in the rest of America. "Do you see anybody here lying on the street or begging for money? Do you see anyone jumping on your car and wanting to clean your windshield -- and when...
...lose from abandonment of the old system, and some traders just aren't comfortable doing business in a new way. But whether Wunsch succeeds or fails, he has established a principle that will shape securities markets from now on. As New York University economics professor Robert Schwartz puts it, "If computers can connect buyers and sellers, who needs brokers or exchanges...
...used to being re-elected by an overwhelming margin? That seems unlikely this year. But the Calpers-led protest could be picking up support. Neuberger & Berman, a Manhattan firm that manages more ITT stock than any other institution -- 2 million shares -- is not happy. Wrote Neuberger portfolio manager Marvin Schwartz in a letter to Araskog: "One cannot escape noting that ITT stock has been an extremely dismal performer in the marketplace over the past 11-year period." That sorry record, Schwartz declared, "suggests that knowledgeable institutional investors do not think very highly of either the company or its prospects...