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...crunch made a big front-page splash in just about every newspaper. But the Wall Street Journal, forced by its staid though successful format to use only a single column on page one for the story, had to bury considerable news inside. The paper felt obliged to provide readers with a guide, which ran on the front page...
...line between the temporal and the spiritual ceases to exist. When an old man plants his tomatoes near the stable wall "to keep them warm" as he tells his granddaughter; when a hardworking father gazes in unabashed love at his son studying by the fireside; every time the children splash through the ever-present mud puddle in the stable yard: their faith is celebrated in everything they do. It's a faith of growing things and cycles that originated long before Christianity and is rooted in the soil as soundly as are these four families...
...problems with the concept of decadence is that it has such a long moral shoreline, stretching from bleak and mountainously serious considerations of history to the shallow places where ideas evaporate 30 seconds after they splash. For all the range of its uses, decadence is a crude term. It houses fallacies. People think of decadence as the reason for the collapse of Rome, but the point is arguable. Rome at the height of its imperial power was as morally depraved as in its decline. Perhaps more...
...with the Supreme Court nominee while performing stress tests on their new Posturepedic. Streep, tackling with stunning confidence an entirely different role from that she played in The Deer Hunter, evinces a magnetic attraction to power. In her first conversation with Tynan, she says, "When I think of the splash you could make with this, I just get weak in the knees...
...Rosenthal ever since a family shortage of it back in Brooklyn during the Depression blocked him from entering Pennsylvania's Wharton School. He had to settle for N.Y.U., because his father, an up-and-down entrepreneur from Winnipeg, ran out of money. Rosenthal graduated summa, made an early splash on Wall Street, joined a group that took over a then bedraggled Citizens, and became its chief at 30. In the 34 years since then, the company has raised its profits and dividends every year...