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...inspired charges among the cynical that corporate greed knew no ethical bounds. It touched off a furious row in Britain's Parliament, where a formal inquiry was launched into how the government could have let itself be used by an American highflyer at such cost to its treasury. Protested Sir William Clark, chairman of the Conservative Party's backbench finance committee: "This is absolutely monstrous; it shows that to pump public money into businesses merely to create jobs can be disastrous...
Since the 1964 retirement of Sir H. A. R. Gibb, British scholar, the History Department's instruction in the Middle East has come from junior faculty, visiting professors, and professors with joint appointments...
...wonder, then, that writers have taken such pains to portray the power of certain enemies, that power being a testament to their heroes' own. Milton gave Satan the height of a colossus in order to emphasize the magnificence of his opponent. Similarly, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had Holmes near quavering when Professor Moriarty first filled his doorway: "My nerves are fairly proof, Watson, but I must confess to a start when I saw the very man who had been so much in my thoughts standing there on my threshold. His appearance was quite familiar to me. He is extremely...
Doris Lessing: There hasn't been a woman since Nelly Sachs shared the loot with Agnon in '66' There hasn't been a Brit since, catch this. Sir Winston Churchill of the "Narrzi Beast" fame won it is '53, A couple of things have Doris on the rocks, 1, The Times ran a story in its magazine on here during the summer. That's more a kiss of death than appearing on the cover of SI. 2, Leasing's latest books are sci-fi, and it the committee wants that, well they just ought to was till my man Isaac...
FICTION: Mantissa, John Fowles -A Midnight Clear, William Wharton Monsignor Quixote, Graham Greene My Old Sweetheart, Susanna Moore Selected Stories, Robert Walser The Third World War, General Sir John Hackett