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...enrolling their son, at reduced tuition, in St. Cyprian's, an institution that rigorously prepared boys for the great public schools. Eric, 8, was caned for bed wetting: the place encouraged him to feel unworthy. "I had no money, I was weak, I was ugly, I was unpopular, I had a chronic cough, I was cowardly, I smelt, I was an unattractive...
Jacintha Buddicom, now 82, who met and became friends with Eric Blair during his school vacations, disputes this self-portrait: "The business about how unpopular he was was a lot of nonsense, a fairy story." He fished and hunted, kept pet guinea pigs and roamed the Oxfordshire countryside. But Jacintha did not see him at St. Cyprian's. Critic Cyril Connolly, who was his classmate, would later remember that Eric "felt bitterly that he was taken on at reduced fees because he might win the school a scholarship; he saw this as a humiliation, but it was really...
Once again Central American states find themselves either wrestling with or recovering from the most enduring features of their history poverty and despotism. And once again the United States demonstrates its seemingly incurable myopia as it props up unpopular regimes and points to military solutions for recurring economic problems...
...addition to pushing unpopular programs, Feldstein has undermined his credibility with a series of inaccurate economic forecasts. Last January he projected that business would grow only 3.1% this year. That low forecast earned him the nickname "Dr. Gloom." He has since revised that figure an embarrassing four times, and now predicts that the G.N.P. will increase 6% to 6.5% this year. Says one White House observer: "This record reinforces Reagan's tendency to disregard the doomsaying of economists generally and to follow his instincts instead...
...such an incompetent group with such dangerous ideas." Shamir sought to distance himself from the discredited dollarization scheme, calling it an "unhatched egg." His government's survival may now depend on whether he can persuade someone of stature to take on the thankless task of assuming responsibility for unpopular economic measures. Said a Likud Party member: "What we need is a knight in shining armor, and we do not have one who is suicidal...