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...plot-seems better suited to one of Harold Robbins' meat operas than to the work of a man who once won the National Book Award (for Steps) and who is now a professor of prose and criticism at Yale. Kosinski's hero, Jonathan Whalen, is sole heir to one of the nation's great industrial fortunes, and to a remarkably ordinary set of psychological wounds. Whalen's father, a tycoon now dead, gave his son insufficient attention, and seems thereby to be the villain of the story-unless the villain is the new industrial state...
...more than the price that the stock was bringing at the time. The other major holders of A. & P. are the John A. Hartford Foundation and various members of the founding Hartford family. Trustees of the foundation will meet this week to decide their position. A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford, who has sold most of his stock, did not think much of the Bluhdorn offer, saying that selling to G. & W. would be "like jumping from the frying pan into the fire." Meanwhile Wall Streeters reckoned that Bluhdorn had acted unwisely. Just after the offer was made, G. & W. stock...
...Neanderthal, is not so important; an artist must be judged, to some degree, in terms of his aims. He wished to construct a universe of plea sure and relaxation - like Matisse's "armchair for tired businessmen," but more so - and in this he succeeded. He was the natural heir of the finest decorators of the 18th century, Fragonard and Boucher. "He who has not lived be fore the Revolution," said Metternich, "cannot know the sweetness of life," and Renoir's spiritual home was built before 1789. Almost from the start of his career, Renoir's technique...
...Great Society will surely take off again four or eight years from now," said Adam Yarmolinsky, a member of the Institute of Politics, who served on Johnson's anti-poverty task force. "He was the heir of the New Deal with a populist twist...
...Crimson editor who has seen the fruits of hours of hard work destroyed by a web break, a dropped tray, or any of the mechanical ills the press is heir to will sympathize with the printing problems of the new Daily Crimson, as expressed by an editor of the period in the history published...