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In a textbook recovery, it is usually the valiant consumer, checkbook and shopping bags in hand, who spends the way back to economic health, with industry dutifully tagging along behind. So it has been with the present post-recession recovery, at least until recently. In July, according to the Commerce...
A kilowatt saved is a kilowatt earned, and energy thrift should not have to be its own reward. So believe officers of the Seattle Trust & Savings Bank, who are now offering reduced-cost loans to customers who open new checking accounts and buy well-insulated homes, upgrade existing ones or...
AS FOR THE literary part of Diaspora, it is by no means an unqualified success. College literati generally ropewalk their readers over deep pits full of slobbering metaphors and toothless symbols--all juicily anticipating being able to gum us to death down below. The freshness of youth too often translates...
Jowitt's view translates into practical terms the notions of author-critic Susan Sonntag in her essay "Against Interpretation," a manifesto of sorts for the sixties' avant-garde. Sonntag writes:
Or Waldo Von Erich, the all-German Champ, who parades around matches in Buffalo, his home-away-from-home, in full Nazi regalia, including hobnailed boots, Iron Cross medallion, World War II helmet, and leather whip. He has developed a hold which translates into English as "The Claw." When applied...