Word: shaded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...glad I still know small farmers; people who care for the land and don't feel the need to rip out lovely old shade trees. Mr. Benedict is no farmer; he's just another Big Businessman...
...might ask, if small farms are actually more efficient than big ones, why are they being gobbled up by the likes of Pat Benedict, who in the past few years has aquired four farms? The article reports that "in three cases, he razed and burned the houses, uprooted graceful shade trees and returned all the land to crops." Time might call that progress, but the dispossessed farmers probably called it robbery...
Administration officials do not accept the forecasts of a recession. Last week Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal speculated that next year's growth in G.N.P. would be about 3% or more. "It may be a shade above that for a quarter or two," said he, "or a shade below." Added William Cox, deputy chief economist at the Commerce Department: "I still feel we're not likely to have an outright recession next year. There are several elements of strength in the picture." He cited increased business investment and the improving balance of trade. "There's a reasonably...
Thomas McGuane's first three novels (The Sporting Club, The Bushwhacked Piano and Ninety-Two in the Shade) certified him as a young man on the way to becoming a Major American Writer, one of the four or five best of his generation (he is now 38). McGuane, ran the critics' early form, was Hemingway by way of the drug generation...
...perhaps Tom McGuane also suffers from memory loss--he has forgotten the Aristotelian Florida of 92 in the Shade, forsaken it for the Caribbean syndicalism of Panama. As Geoffrey Wolfe (one of our better book critics) pointed out in his review in New Times, this book suffers from many things, but most of all it suffers from the first person. But that first person telling also makes me think there is more to Panama than one might first notice: 92 in the Shade was a story of heat, moving at a seemingly languid pace, while Panama, underneath the cool cocaine...