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Once upon a time, a mysterious extraterrestrial creature descended to the earth. He was innocent, wise and altogether gentle, but just about everyone who knew he had landed misunderstood him and conspired to get rid of him. Only a few young people saw his true benevolence, and they and the creature became inseparable. In return for their faith, the alien established a strange and powerful bond with his earthling disciples: they suffered together--even when they were miles apart--and he healed their wounds with a touch of his other-worldly finger...
...they become the epic for the Greek city-states. What was in them that made them such a universal expression of what it means to be Greek as opposed to barbarian. They are an expression of what it means to be educated, what it means to be wise. To us, they are narratives, but for many societies, the narrative is a way of organizing reality, what a society's values...
...trio, already dubbed the "three wise men" by the Italian press, are Joseph Brennan, 71, chairman of the executive committee of New York's Emigrant Savings Bank; Phillippe de Week, 63, former president of the Union Bank of Switzerland; and Carlo Cerutti, 70, vice president of STET, the Italian national telecommunications company...
...basic antagonisms. Says he: "I rather think that unions' attitudes are 'Well, this is management's inning. We've got a recession. There'll come a day when we'll get our innings again.'" Dunlop believes that unions in ailing companies were wise to go along with concessions, but he does not expect other workers to follow suit. Dunlop flatly dismisses any argument that the recession will lead to any Japanese-style harmony between unions and industry. "Any notion that this is transforming American labor relations or that people are now going...
...soul, a bug caught some time in the formative years but remaining dormant until some temporary weakness of the mind or spirit permits it to break loose. Surely such a classic pathology lies behind the unexpected passion that afflicts the otherwise kindly and harmless Don Alejandro in a wise and compassionate Spanish film called The Nest. The strength of Eric Rohmer's equally excellent Le Beau Manage is that it shows how rationalism, which is supposed to immunize us against our more maddened desires, can, when indulged in to excess, also provide a breeding ground for love gone lunatic...