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...English-born poet only slightly younger than Amis Dennis Silk, writes with an air of distance, too, but of a very different sort. In The Punisbed Land the author, who has lived in Jerusalem since 1955, seems to feel more strongly than most the spiritual implications of the ordinary, the deep religious possibilities of the merest object or encounter; these feelings seen to awe him. He is like, not a prophet, exactly, but a philosopher (in the older sense), passing (invisible?) through a "punished land," "too beautiful for its inhabitants"--but passing, at the same time, far too readily from...
...Youngman seems to be as enduring as his jokes. His hair has thinned, his back and shoulders are perhaps more noticeably hunched, the bags beneath his eyes darker and deeper. But time hasn't altered him much. The black suit with the silk lining, the stiff bow tie: the image is intact. And so are the jokes...
Corporate ties are usually reserved for company directors, important clients and a few corporate friends. They are rarely sold to outsiders, since that might detract from their cachet. Most firms order only a limited number of the ties in silk because of the expense, about $10.50 each. More pedestrian polyester versions costing about $7.25 each are usually offered to middle-level employees at cost. And for their new women executives, many companies now have scarves that bear the corporate tie design...
...unskilled, minority and women laborers of the day into One Big Union. The group won its first big victory 20 miles from here in Lawrence in 1912, forcing the mill owners to shorten days and increase wages. A year later, the Wobblies suffered their biggest loss, when the silk manufacturers used police and scabs to maintain their grip. "We didn't include half of what we could have about government attempts to hurt the IWW," producer-director Stewart Bird says. "If we had, people simply would not have believed...
...returned to graduate from New York University Law School. A reformer at heart, he was a worker for Adlai Stevenson and, in 1966, won a term on the city council. In 1968 he was elected to his first of four terms as a Congressman representing Manhattan's "Silk Stocking" district, which includes part of the wealthy Upper East Side. In 1977, despite the fact that both the banks and labor supported other candidates, Koch was elected mayor with slightly more than 50% of the vote...