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...clock-conscious societies of the industrial West, woe greets the individual who defies the hallowed laws of punctuality. The Germans, who hold timeliness next to godliness, were infuriated by the constant tardiness of Senator Edward Kennedy and his wife during a semiofficial visit last April. Together and separately, the two Kennedys observed only one rule-to be late, sometimes by one or two hours, for every engagement. "The honorable Senator," observed a columnist in the Frankfurter Allgemeinc Zeitung, all of his umlauts drawn into an angry frown, "came, saw, and did not conquer." The Kennedys are not the only public...
...many as 500,000 people. A civil war that claimed perhaps 200,000 more. An exodus that already totals 5,000,000 and is still growing. A cholera epidemic that has barely begun, yet has already taken some 5,000 lives. It is an almost biblical catalogue of woe, rivaling if not surpassing the plagues visited upon the Egyptians of Mosaic days. And yet it is virtually certain that the list will grow even longer for the bedeviled people of East Pakistan. Last week, as fresh waves of refugees poured across the Indian border at the rate...
Like so many other troubled, dislocated young Americans, Taylor may at first seem self-indulgent in his woe. What he has endured and sings about, with much restraint and dignity, are mainly "head" problems, those pains that a lavish quota of middle-class advantages?plenty of money, a loving family, good schools, health, charm and talent?do not seem to prevent, and may in fact exacerbate. Drugs, underachievement, the failure of will, alienation, the doorway to suicide, the struggle back to life?James Taylor has been there himself...
THAT Wall Street must undergo fundamental reforms if it is to survive as the securities-trading capital is almost universally accepted. Woe to him, however, who tries to translate broad truism into specific truth. Robert Haack, president of the New York Stock Exchange, discovered the danger last week when he proposed some basic revisions in exchange rules. Though some members supported him, many reacted as if he were ordering tumbrels to convey them to the guillotine. Among the insults flung at him were "panderer," "out of his mind" and "he makes me sick." Bernard Lasker, chairman of the N.Y.S.E. board...
...number of symbolic quests. At times Agathon, whose name in Greek means the Good, stands for the whole Western tradition of humane tolerance, now threatened by the twin fanaticisms of repression and revolution. At others, he is some kind of primordial natural force, a witness to agelong woe and fatality. At still others, when what he calls facticity catches up with him, Agathon is just a slobbish old lecher smelling of onions. In this guise he represents the irreducible, incorrigible lump of humanity that always jams up the bright theoretical machines continually being invented by one Lycurgus or another...