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...Great World-and what he knows of it long ago convinced him that he could not feel "at home in the 20th century." At Silverwood, time has been stopped resolutely, circa 1870. What starts the clocks moving again and causes Ninian's downfall is a hopelessly immature, nearly illiterate 18-year-old whom he hires as his secretary. Unlike Lolita's Humbert Humbert, Ninian manages to convince himself that he is interested in the girl's mind: peering at a "modern" daub through myopic eyes, she had once by wildest mischance correctly identified a Dufy...
...step further by depicting the new potency of Europe if Britain added its considerable weight to the Common Market. The result "would be a population larger than Russia or America," he said, "a community occupying the fairest part of the earth, comprising the most intelligent, hardworking people in the world-and far better able to help the Commonwealth and supply capital and know-how to underdeveloped countries." On the other hand, if Britain stayed out, Birch warned, it would not long retain what Britons like to regard as their first-friend-and-counselor role with the U.S. "As the relative...
...came quickly. Across the world-and even in the sleek chambers of U.N. headquarters in Manhattan-Communist-inspired squads broke into rioting (see FOREIGN NEWS). The Soviet Union threatened military intervention in behalf of the Communist-lining Congolese Pretender Antoine Gizenga. It reopened its campaign to destroy the authority of U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold and. in effect, to destroy the U.N. as a force for law and as a workable instrument of orderly neutrality...
...things we like, we must share them with others.'' Before he was killed in an automobile wreck in 1951, Barnes was already a legend for practicing exactly the opposite of what he preached. He owned a $100 million art collection, one of the finest in the world-and only a comparative handful of people ever...
...Harvard students' report finds that both small and big businesses need "effective competitive intelligence systems" to hold their own in today's competitive business world-and that setting them up on a formal, ethical basis may do away with a lot of hanky-panky. It also sounds a warning through the words of one executive: "If you spend too much time finding out what your competitor is doing, you may be spending too little time developing newer products and processes of your own. You become less imaginative, less dynamic, less resourceful...