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...Book and the Brotherhood is Iris Murdoch's 23rd novel. That number alone does not fully convey the amazing range of her productivity. For as seasoned Murdoch readers can attest, she has seldom been content simply to tell one story at a time. Her fiction typically doubles up, offering both explicit and subterranean tales. On the surface, civilized, well-educated characters move about in theoretical freedom, working out their destinies according to the dictates of reason and plausibility. But actually they are in thrall to hidden forces, submerged patterns, in danger of being swallowed up, say, by the plot...
...sort of unattractive human debris." The revelers emerge the worse for wear. Gerard Hernshaw, the acknowledged leader of this elite band, has learned by phone that his ill father has died overnight. Gerard's oldest and closest friends, Jenkin Riderhood and Duncan Cambus, are drunk and disoriented. Although Duncan seldom needs a reason for such a condition, in the aftermath of this midsummer night's madness he can offer a good one. The dance has exposed his wife Jean to another meeting with a classmate, the Scottish-born David Crimond, who is now a charismatic and notorious Marxist philosopher. Once...
...long ago, Carl Icahn looked like just another face in the rogue's gallery of corporate raiders, the types who bad-mouth managers but seldom seem to spend an honest day's work trying to renovate the companies they attack. Yet lo and behold, this widely feared raider is proving a breed apart from the other fast-buck operators. He rolls up his sleeves. Icahn, 51, is a quick learner who is imposing his no-frills ethic on some of the largest and most troubled U.S. corporations. Right now, the unflappable Icahn (estimated net worth: $700 million) is simultaneously juggling...
...Harvard seldom tastes those 31 flavors of defeat after the Beanpot...
...year presumably knew how to keep his football out of his mouth, say something so stupid? The explanation really lies in his subsequent warning that "if blacks take over coaching like everybody wants them to, there is not going to be anything left for the white people." Seldom does a public figure so plainly state what many whites seem to feel when blacks break into previously all-white enclaves: more for them is less...