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...refer to the Massachusetts Bay Colony statute of 1646. which decreed that if a man had "a stubborn or rebellious son" of at least 16 years of age, he could bring him to the magistrate's court where "such a son shall be put to death." It is interesting to note that this was copied directly from the Old Testament. Of significance is the fact that this early Hebrew practice recognized the fallibility of parents and left the decision to the elders of the town...
That is the last worry that anyone would have voiced twelve months ago. The nation had just been through a stormy period of wage-price freeze and dollar devaluation, of stubborn inflation and sticky unemployment. TIME's Board of Economists, however, predicted as early as 15 months ago that in 1972 the gross national product would jump by a record amount and inflation would diminish significantly, with the result that the real purchasing power of the average factory or office worker would show the biggest gain in years. That is exactly what happened...
...Christie; yet Sleuth is finally undone by the same problems as beset those musty standards, Ten Little Indians or The Mousetrap. Such works tease and divert; yet there is always a feeling of having been a little cheated after the curtain falls or the last page is turned. Their stubborn remoteness from reality, which is part of their charm, is also their undoing...
Riding the Wave. Marcel Bich is a stubborn, opinionated entrepreneur who inherited his title from his forebears in the predominantly French-speaking Val D'Aoste region of northern Italy. He abhors technocrats, computers and borrowing money. At 58, he attributes his business successes to his refusal to listen to almost anyone's advice but his own. Bich says that his philosophy has been to "concentrate on one product, used by everyone every day." Now, however, he is moving toward diversification. A disposable Bic cigarette lighter that gives 3,000 lights is being test-marketed in Sweden...
Before this happened, literature was capable of shoring up our intutions, expressing a condition that we remembered and identified as experience. There was no division of labor. Writers were simply known as writers, those eloquent stubborn men who lived alone and produced thousands of pages in a thin, crabbed hand. Words were so valuable, so freighted with nuance and intent, that aphorisms could be written which illustrated the world. Pascal, that ardent custodian of language, would have endorsed Mallarme's notion that "Tout, au monde, existe pour aboutir a un livre." Having discovered that all worldly activity could be dismissed...