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...good share of its market to the much thirstier Mercedes-Benz, suggesting to some VW officials that the beloved Beetle configuration may have finally outlived its attractiveness. As a result, the company that once turned a one-model line into an advertising asset has been introducing a whole new array of cars...
...discovery of this massive array of facts makes Blotner's failure to approach the mind of the writer all the more inexcusable. He could have, as Edel suggests, used psychology, like Freud's Leonardo da Vinci, Erikson's Young Man Luther, and David Donald's Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War. Henry James was suited to Edel's psychological approach--in fact demanded such treatment--because, as the editor of the James letters said, "his life was no mere succession of facts such as could be recorded and compiled by another hand; it was a densely knit...
Some 300 years after a wandering Scottish mystic called "the Brahan Seer" made that Delphic statement, it is turning out to be almost literally true. The "black rain " is about to fall from a vast array of oil rigs in the North Sea. Not coincidentally, the country is undergoing the first widespread resurgence of nationalism in this century. One indicator of the new mood was the dramatic breakthrough scored in February's British elections by the Scottish National Party, a modest fringe group for most of its 40-year history. Claiming, among other things, that "it's Scotland...
...prince regent of soul, a slender, 6 ft.-plus superstar in an Afro, whose songs about love, evil, oppression, freedom, Jesus and promised lands are a kind of ecumenical apotheosis of the blues. Still blind, Wonder in the eleven years of his professional career has distilled a wide array of black and white musical styles into a hugely popular personal idiom that emphatically defines where pop is at right...
...array of officers holding top government positions in Greece--Ioannides, Androutsopoulos, Gizikis--were all trained in the U.S. Tom Pappas of Boston, a Greek-American businessman, was instrumental in assuring Androutsopoulos his position as the new premier. Pappas is the largest single investor in Greek enterprise, and controls a bloc of industry with a clout like ITT's in the States. During an interview with the Greek newspaper Apogevmatini in 1968, he was asked whether it was true that he belonged to the CIA. His blunt reply reads, "Of course it is. And I am very proud...