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Such questions haunt Ian Hamilton's extensive biography of poet Robert Lowell, who confronted all of these dilemmas Born into the wealthy, heritage-ridden Lowell family, he was the only son of a weak-willed father and a domineering mother who made sure he went to the right schools--St Mark's prep. then Harvard. Until his freshman year at college. Lowell had shown only ordinary signs of rebellion against a stifling Boston social order. During that year he became romantically involved with Anne Dick, a 24-year-old cousin of one of his friends, beginning what would...
...account for only 35% of sales. The crown jewel was last year's acquisition of Beijerinvest, a large energy trading company, for $305 million. With the acquisition came 31 oil-drilling sites in the North Sea. In August, Volvo expanded its oil holdings by buying 50% of Hamilton Brothers Petroleum Corp., a private U.S. firm that also explores for offshore crude. Despite weakening oil prices, Volvo's overall holdings have prospered because the company has hedged its bets in other businesses, like food products. Its sales last year of $8.6 billion made it Sweden's largest industrial...
...deliberately accosting passerby on the rainy street with an "accidental" jostle and a subsequent "Why, you're the last person I expected to see!" Someone finally falls for this deception--Thomas E. Bates(Denholm Eihott) a harried middle-aged writer of mass-produced inspirational verse. His daughter Patricia(Suzanna Hamilton)has been severely brain damaged by a hit-and-run accident four years previously, and is now taken care of by her mother(Joan Plowright). Pretending to be an old friend of Patricia's named Martic Taylor, the young man gradually insinuates himself into the Bates weary household through...
...left to Hamilton Jordan, Carter's chief adviser, to make Carter's point for him. In his own memoirs Crisis, Jordan says: "Jimmy Carter underestimated-as all Presidents do-the aggressiveness and hostility of the White House press . . . I believe that Watergate and Viet Nam pushed the American media from wholesome skepticism and doubt into out-and-out cynicism about the American political process generally and the presidency specifically...
Carter is also unexpectedly silent on the 1980 campaign, devoting to it one short chapter. Here, one senses that his honesty ebbs. According to Crisis, Hamilton Jordan's account of the last year of the Carter Administration, the President was obsessed with re-election, and deeply bitter throughout at his Democratic challenger, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.). His machinations during the primary race against Kennedy--pumping huge federal grants into states with upcoming primaries--are well-known, yet Cart-here opts for the literary parallel of his 1980 "Rose Garden strategy": he simply refuses to enter the fray...