Word: things
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Saul Bellow created a lot of excitement last March when he allowed his novella A Theft to appear as a paperback original, thus abandoning the hard covers that might have seemed more appropriate for a work by a Nobel laureate. Scarcely six months later, he has done the same thing again. Whether it makes commercial sense to flood the market with short books by Bellow remains to be seen. But book lovers, as opposed to bookkeepers, have every reason to cheer his decision to come ahead with more...
...care if incentives will result in greater productivity and more profit. To a businessman their attitude is insane. But they are happy if they turn just a little profit, because they know that that will satisfy their higher-ups and that everyone will then be covered. Probably the only thing left for me to try is straight corruption...
...make one final point. What resonates for most Chinese, he says, "is when Deng and the others argue that permitting Tiananmen to run its course could have led to chaos and disorder, to another Cultural Revolution. The Cultural Revolution is the benchmark against which everything looks better, the one thing above all that we do not want again...
...ANONYMOUS was a woman," read one of the original slogans on the bathroom wall. After four years of a Harvard education, it would be easy to conclude such a thing; after four years as a reporter at The Harvard Crimson, it is also quite simple...
...insecurity, the symbolism of the whole thing, which seemed to drive us. As one woman wrote, "Is our position here so tenuous that we--and what we have done--can be white-washed away in one morning's work...