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...promote the ideas of investment in the future that were contained in The Work of Nations, which had just been published. A mutual friend, playing devil's advocate, raised several arguments why Clinton should not run, but Reich recalls with a grin, "I just sat there wagging my tail...
Such acclaim breeds competition, and in the past year half a dozen non- Disney animated features were released (Ferngully: The Last Rainforest, An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, Cool World, Rock-a-Doodle, Bebe's Kids and Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland). Some of these had charm to spare; others were what industry analyst Art Murphy calls "spinach pictures -- family films that are good for you." Popeye eats spinach, kids don't; the six films together managed just over half the take of Beauty and the Beast. It all proves the difficulty of matching either Disney's financial commitment...
...more than just symbolic terms, GM's crisis ranks as the most dramatic culture shock in the transition of American industry from the fat years of the postwar era to the lean years of today. During the 1950s, GM's gas-hogging V- 8s and exuberant tail-finned sedans reflected the confidence of a nation newly arrived at superpower status, with seemingly unlimited resources and skyrocketing productivity. "With GM, you were really talking about a bold vision of America," says Harley Shaiken, a professor of work and technology at the University of California at San Diego. Former chairman Charles ("Engine...
...with death comes forgetfulness by others, even complete amnesia if you're unlucky. Hedonism is a wonderful principle, just until the time when you start taking your own adventures a little bit too seriously. These people cluster around campus, these short-sighted nothings who cannot see beyond the tail of reputation behind them and the promise of greatness before. Such souls are not to be admired, but pitied, for they fail to understand that we live and die, that we depend on others, that their achievements are as ephemeral as the autumn squirrel's nut store...
Wallace-Crabbe, Harvard's visiting professor of Australian Studies from 1987-1988, returned to Mather House on October 1 at the tail end of a world-wide poetry reading tour...