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...imitate Proust and constantly dwell within thoughts, metaphors, code-phrases, and imagined scenes of passion is misguided. The prose is feverish and obsessive; though his writing occasionally reaches lyrical heights, the banality of his subjects often overpowers. It particularly raises the question of whether the flowery, (pand)angsty voice of the narrator isn’t just Aciman’s projection of how he believes women want men to think, feel and obsess over them, since there doesn’t appear to be much emotional impetus for the narrator to act on beyond the overwhelming longing and fear...
Former Interior Secretary James Watt pleaded guilty Tuesday to trying to influence a federal grand jury that investigated 1980s influence-peddling at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. He could serve as many as six months in jail pand pay a $5,000 fine. Watt previously had denied charges that he tried to cover up his efforts to win contracts from HUD after leaving the government in 1983. But faced with 18 felony counts for perjury, he acknowledged that he kept documents secret that had been relevant to the grand jury's investigation, and by so doing reduced...
Jordan, where all the Dead Sea scrolls were found, forbade the Bedouins to dig up pand sell the scrolls. But the government did permit Bedouins to sell to the scholars, with the understanding that they would return the scrolls to the government after they had published the material...
Congress must pass as well on the President's grandiose program to ex- pand social security. With rapid expansion of the new Great Society programs stymied, this increase of benefits-the largest since social security began- could emerge as the most significant domestic proposal of this year. Benefits would be raised an average of 20% but at the low end of the scale payments would go up 59%. Already somewhat weighted in favor of low-wage earners, the social-security system would shift farther from the actuarial principle toward a welfare-oriented concept. The system would, in effect become...
Their approach to the five most impor tant economic problems shapes up as follows : DEFENSE. The Government's plan to ex pand the economy enough to superimpose war production on top of normal civilian production was sound, but In the helter-skelter expansion, contracts often went to inefficient or high-cost producers. Defense Secretary Wilson plans to shake out costly, inefficient production; he also hopes to step up the supply of arms without stepping up arms-spending. With the help of Eisenhower's own knowledge of military ways, Wilson expects to trim the fat out of procurement...
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