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...television clips are most effective because they reveal Kerouac's conservative character, both politically and socially. A scene from Buckley's Firing Line is particularly tragic. With merciless interviewing poise, Buckley casually questions the seriousness of Kerouac's writing and his tenuous connecting of religion and literature. Kerouac, obviously very drunk, answers Buckley on the air with a string of babblings on Buddhism. Ultimately, Kerouac makes a fool of himself, at the same time highlighting his own inability to fit in with the chic literati...
...firm started in 1904 by Edward F. Hutton. Since Fomon took over as chief executive in 1970, he has managed to turn Hutton into one of Wall Street's most dynamic performers while at the same time eluding takeover bids by other financial companies. But its independence is growing tenuous. Hutton's shake-up could prompt some senior executives and other large stockholders to welcome a takeover offer. That could make Hutton an easier acquisition target for such firms as Phibro-Salomon, the investment company, or Chrysler, which has been seeking to buy a financial subsidiary. While Hutton executives hope...
...brother against my cousin. But I, my brother and my cousin against the outsider." That old Arab proverb aptly described the tenuous unity that emerged last week among factions of the Palestine Liberation Organization as they literally fought for their lives in Beirut. The Shi'ite Amal militia had set out in mid-May to seize control of three Palestinian refugee camps -- Sabra, Shatila and Burj el Barajneh -- to make certain that the P.L.O. would not regain the power it once had in Lebanon. Amal Leader Nabih Berri was convinced that Syrian-backed P.L.O. splinter groups opposed to Chairman Yasser...
Opposing divestment is not a "conservative" position, just as supporting it is not "liberal." Rather, we see the dichotomy as ivory tower and pragmatic. The activists at Harvard want the University to make a grand statement, to cut symbolically Harvard's tenuous links to apartheid. (More than three-quarters of the South-Africa related companies in Harvard's portfolio do less than 1 percent of their business there...
...Reeves catches nicely both the tenuous hand-t-mouth existence of the aspiring academic, and the absurd chance that governs life generally-both points worth pondering and laughing over as another exam period has ended its domination of Cambridge life...