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...relationships become "Love Story," allwriters are Norman Mailer, George Plimpton, orT.S. Eliot, all politicians are FDR, allsocialites are Edie Sedgewick, all academics areJohn Kenneth Galbraith--brilliant, savvy, sexy,worthy of a bad Harvard novel. In the same vein,all depressions become suicidal, and happinessresembles a Soma Holiday...
...California Angels do have a funny way of looking at youth. Don Sutton, 41, still pitches. Bob Boone, 38, still catches. From Pitcher Ken Forsch, 39, to Second Baseman Bobby Grich, 37, one could go on for quite a while in this varicose vein. But it is probably enough to say that Jimmie Reese, the Angels' "conditioning coach," is 80 and used to room with Babe Ruth. And the designated hitter, Reggie Jackson, has just turned...
...domestic melodrama in which well-intentioned people cause calamities; the climactic suicide of a dreamy adolescent girl is generally staged with perverse beauty, as a sentimental symbol of how adult reality crushes freedom of spirit. Pintilie, who brings an Eastern European's Marxist sensibility, has exposed a vein of social criticism about the corrosive effects of wealth and envy...
What are the implications of those changes for government and business? Drucker warns that all companies engaged in trade must find better ways to hedge themselves against sudden swings in exchange rates and other pitfalls of the international economy. In the same vein, he advises countries that they must give top priority to their international competitive position, rather than to domestic economic considerations. Moreover, he says, governments should avoid trying to tinker with the workings of free markets like the currency exchanges. Drucker's musings may be well founded. But they are also, unfortunately, the kind of economic advice that...
Balson, who described "Ramsey" as a novel about growing up in Los Angeles, says, "My book is in the vein of Catcher in the Rye and Portrait of the Artist as A Young Men. Stylistically, I'm inspired by Joyce and Faulkner. They are my heroes...