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...merely a subject of caste, church and state. Europe for centuries had been under the sway of authority and tradition. Everyone had a place, and there was no place for an entrepreneur. The early Church Father St. Jerome had said it all: "A man who is a merchant can seldom if ever please...
Morgan's volume forms a monument to Maugham--its size testifies to the complexity of the subject and the exceptionally active life he led. Yet Morgan does not attempt to deify the writer, revealing not the successful, exciting, respected literary profile Maugham wished to project, but the often caustic, seldom genuinely charming man, obsessed with his literary shortcomings--he considered himself a failure for not winning a Nobel Prize--and haunted by his own homosexuality and his fear of public exposure. Born during the reign of Queen Victoria, he clung to Edwardian values of keeping up appearances; he had many...
...fifth open letter to the Harvard community, President Bok this week added a new dimension to his view that universities should seldom consider ideological or moral beliefs when making policy and personnel decisions...
...contracted to sell the commodity to him but do not have any to deliver must either buy anything they can find at whatever outrageous prices may be asked or else settle in cash with the cornering speculator on any terms he may specify. Corners have often been attempted but seldom work, partly because the soaring price creates new supplies. The most famous corner was the one that Jay Gould and Jim Fisk achieved in the New York gold market in 1869 by bribing President Grant's Assistant Treasurer, Daniel Butterfield, to limit the supply of gold. Grant himself intervened...
...gone back to nature. As a result it has become a home for bluebirds, cardinals, butterflies, deer, foxes, raccoons, chipmunks and turtles. Between Fire Station 8 and a bank in a San Francisco warehouse area, a green grove of trees and shrubs attracts finches, hawks, hummingbirds and others seldom seen in the city's industrial neighborhood. Ten trees and a variety of bushes growing on a 30-ft. by 40-ft. backyard in Brooklyn have attracted 105 varieties of birds, including crow, red-bellied woodpecker and green heron...