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...sellers is Avalon Hill's Acquire (price $15), which allows would-be conglomerate makers to wheel and deal their way to paper empires. In Profit and Loss ($15) players trade art, antiques, real estate and stocks. Capitalism itself is put to the test in Class Struggle ($12), in which players rep resent different classes in society and the object of the game is to win the revolution...
Ford's new front-wheel-drive subcompacts, the Ford Escort and the Mercury Lynx, are selling better. Ford has orders for 180,000 of them, and is expected to meet projected 1981 sales of 345,000. But Ford's larger cars, such as the Granada and the Mercury Cougar, continue to gather dust on show room floors. The company has already shut down plants in Atlanta and Chicago to reduce inventories of the slow-selling cars...
...anamnesis seem part of a new American talent for throwing open the door to the worthy and obvious, to a solid modest vista of common sense or even virtue, and treating it as a revelation that the cosmos has, until now, kept hidden. It is like discovering the wheel all over again...
...pervasive solipsism may account for the need to go around periodically rediscovering the wheel. The notion that all human history began at one's own birth, a common delusion, remains extraordinarily strong, even in an electronic and allegedly literate civilization capable of reproducing the prenatal past at the touch of a button or the cracking of a book. As the Italian writer Giovanni Papini wrote about his generation of World War I, "For the 20-year-old man, every old man is the enemy; every idea is suspect; every great man is there to be put on trial; past...
...rigidly traditional epochs, it was human nature for one generation to reject, dynamite and otherwise ridicule the structures and ideas of the previous generation in order to make room for its own. Often enough, when the Oedipal din has died down, the world has been left with a new wheel rather like the old one. St. Augustine detested his fa ther and rejected him with an unholy vehemence. Yet in his later years, Augustine in many ways came to resemble his father almost eerily...