Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Paul Sparer is a stuffed-shirt Ulysses who delivers his two lengthy disquisitions on degree and on time with imposing sonority. During the first, the satirical touch comes when Patrick Hines' gruff Agamemnon clearly doesn't suffer garrulity gladly and impatiently drums his fingers on the table...
...going to suffer a lot of irritation," wrote Graham Greene to the author, "when reviewers compare you to Evelyn." The reader turning to this novel is likely to suffer not so much irritation as a double take: the man staring from the dust jacket is the image of young Evelyn Waugh; the style and subject matter belong to Evelyn Waugh. But the author's name is Auberon, and he is 22 instead...
...year ago. Other regional centers profit in some ways only to lose in others. Buffalo's ocean tonnage has doubled, but its great milling business has sagged because Midwest grain carriers now head straight overseas without stopping at Buffalo. Lake Erie steelmakers enjoy cheaper ore imports but suffer stiffer foreign competition, because imported steel is cheaper when brought in through the St. Lawrence...
...nation's securities markets, according to Chairman Gary, suffer from "a substantial amount" of manipulation, have outgrown the regulations established for them in 1934. With hundreds of thousands of unsophisticated investors invading the market, said Cary, a class of securities salesmen has grown up that is "not subject to the kind of supervision which insures high ethical standards." Fearful that there has been a consequent "lowering of standards in market operations," Cary wants to re-examine the rules to see if they sufficiently protect investors. Specifically, he is anxious to take a hard look at the over-the-counter...
Although Thomas is carefully neutral and steers clear of philosophical or general notions, he illuminates the quasi-religious nature of the whole struggle. In a sense, "the Church, which was to suffer so much in consequence, had paradoxically prepared the way" for revolution through its communalism and "its puritan hostility to competitive instinct.'' Adds Thomas: "The religious character of Spain also made converts to the new collectivism, as it had made the liberals more passionate, less ready to compromise, more obstinate than any other similar group in Europe...