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...firm was unable to sell its products on its own. Says Jay Gwynne, president of the consumer health-products division of Warner-Lambert, which owns Schick: "To try to eliminate the Japanese middleman is the quickest way to commit suicide." Schick's single-blade stainless-steel razor was judged superior to Feather's double-blade carbon one, and Schick's razor became the country's best seller...
...poem The Public Son of a Public Man: "When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes,/ I was your son, high on your horse,/ My mind a top whipped by the lashes/ Of your rhetoric, windy of course." Auden cut a more attractive father figure, an artist of superior talent and technique who stalks the pages of the journal as a steady reminder of his friend's shortcomings...
...traditional measure of a superior play is that it can sustain widely varying interpretations. Benefactors meets that test. Nearly every critic has lavished praise on the work; each has found his own version of the script's meaning. Some saw it as portraying the death of liberalism, others as a comment on the unworkability of democracy. In London, it was widely viewed as a social satire about the professional classes: its self-deluding hero, an architect planning high-rise public housing, seeks to tear down as unlivable a neighborhood of row houses very much like his own. The play...
...those mindless Californians around Reagan, struggling to "work from within" to avert the catastrophe he so clearly saw before him--does not go down well. He confesses to being too enamored of power. Yet he leaves no doubts that he considered his morality of a higher order, his intelligence superior...
...Soviet leadership under Mikhail Gorbachev seems to realize that unless it brakes and perhaps reverses its buildup, the result may indeed be a new round of the defensive-arms race, one in which the U.S. would, at least initially, have the advantage of superior technology. Gorbachev has been pressing for an updated version of the original SALT deal: restrictions on SDI (which is a latter-day ABM system) in exchange for significant reductions in offensive weaponry, especially the most threatening Soviet systems...