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...Federal Reserve Board was showing signs of easing its tight-money policy. Interest rates were falling. At long last, it seemed that stocks should look attractive to skittish investors. But no one was at all prepared for the events that erupted: a torrent of trading volume and the swiftest, most spectacular price surge in the history of the New York Stock Exchange...
...music he plays on his hifi. Sometimes he visits his mistress in Salamanca, more frequently he calls on his only friend, a priest, to chide him with anticlerical chat. He has become less worldly than the good father, and easy prey for Goyita, a 13-year-old schoolgirl (Ana Torrent of Cria), an instinctive siren who senses in him, despite their differences in age and sex, a kindred eccentricity of spirit. He is a very clean old man (especially as portrayed by the innocent-eyed Hector Alterio), and it is she who lures him on into an affair that...
...siller statements about Shakespeare came from Chesterton, who said that "man have agreed about Hamlet vastly more than they have agreed about Ceasar or Muhamet or Cromwell or Mr. Gladstone or Cecil Rhodes." It is preciously because people have disagreed about Hamlet and its timler character that an unending torrent of words has poured forth on the subject--more than on any other fictional personage in history...
...that basic question; it was left to fan magazines to contrive tales that supposedly revealed what the top players were in private life. But no more. Lately, the outpouring of tell-all and tell-a-lot books by and about filmdom's ranking personalities has grown into a torrent...
...instead should provide a neutral setting in which religions can flourish without excessive entanglements with the State. But as one Supreme Court Justice wrote of a group prayer statute two decades ago. "The breach of neutrality that is today a trickling stream may all too soon become a raging torrent." In view of the President's proposal last week, we can only hope that his diagnosis will not soon prove accurate again...