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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pledged to ask Congress for a $100 million"enterprise fund" to support Polish entrepreneurs.Moreover, he said he will ask other industrializeddemocracies to undertake similar initiatives atthis weekend's western economic summit meeting inParis...
...similar expression flickers when Naipaul assesses his own career. "I really don't have a success story to tell," he begins. "My story is one of slog and grind and disappointment and overcoming." Growing up in Trinidad "among advertisements for things that were no longer made," Naipaul rebelled against the prevailing backwater mentality. His model was his father, a journalist who tried to bring new ideas to his insular community. Seepersad Naipaul died in 1953, a defeated man of 47. Yet, as his son has written, "he made the vocation of the writer seem the noblest in the world...
Naipaul's success story is similar to those of other gifted outsiders who have become part of the tradition of English letters. Coming from backgrounds they found provincial and embarrassing, they offered themselves to high culture, only to discover that they had shut the door on their best material. "I was a man who had no idea of what to write about," says Naipaul of his early literary efforts in London. Turning his imagination back to Trinidad released his gift and led to his first successes, lighthearted novels and stories about his island society...
...based largely on tax credits, has threatened to veto ABC, but it is difficult to see how he can sustain such a veto. Although the vote broke down largely on party lines, nine Republicans joined 54 Democrats in passing the plan. Moreover, the House is working on a / bill similar to ABC that would also expand the Head Start program and offer school-based care to latchkey children. Bowing perhaps to political reality, the Administration indicated last week that it would be willing to discuss how ABC can be improved...
...across the political spectrum. On May 18, 36 Senators signed a letter asking for changes in the NEA's grant-making procedures so that "shocking, abhorrent and completely undeserving" art would not get money. At the prompting of Texas Congressman Dick Armey, 107 members of the House sent a similar letter to the endowment...