Word: wizard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Giscard d'Estaing, the honeymoon was over. Actually, some observers were surprised that a confrontation between the center-right President and the leftist French unions had been delayed so long. As Finance Minister in the government of the late Georges Pompidou, Giscard was widely famed as an economic wizard-a reputation that was largely responsible for his narrow victory over Socialist François Mitterrand in last May's elections. Since then, despite Giscard's imposition of a classically conservative program of tightening credit, raising some taxes and holding down budget expenditures, the French economy has gradually...
...blends in topical interest to create a sort of nonfiction fiction. The Carpetbaggers (1961) offered thinly disguised views of Howard Hughes in his prime. The Adventurers (1966) traced jet-set life with the likes of the late Aly Khan. This latest timely extravaganza is a picaresque about a financial wizard who might just be modeled on Abdlatif Al Hamad, the oil sheikdom of Kuwait's money manager...
...plots and extended riffs of funky prose scarcely disguise the conservative folksiness within. Born in Chattanooga and raised in Buffalo, Reed had an early ambition to become a concert violinist. His writing talent surfaced at the University of Buffalo. One of his admirers is another musician-writer, the ranking wizard of experimental fiction, John Barth. After sampling the edges of New York literary life in the early '60s, Reed headed west to Berkeley where he teaches writing at the University of California and is a partner in a new publishing company that supports young talent...
There are no athletic heroes made overnight at Harvard. Only those who have been here a long time with winning records, such as crew wizard Harry Parker or squash and tennis coach Jack Barnaby, are truly worshipped--at least as far as any athletic figure can be revered at Harvard...
...extra treat. He took the wheel of one of the navy's high-powered training boats, then joined the Royal Marines in an assault on a nearby beach. Later he clapped a sailor hat on his head and was heard to pronounce the whole thing "absolutely wizard...