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Soichiro Honda, Eng.D., founder and president of Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo. He preferred grease on his face and a wrench in his hand to sitting behind a desk in a plush office...
...retreat to the view that since Shakespeare's audience was Christian, we can safely assume the play does not mean what it says. Kermode was not so cautious when he edited his brilliant Signet edition of The Winter's Tale. Perhaps now that he's installed in a plush Cambridge professorship, his old sense of adventure will reappear. Harry Levin's general introduction to the book avoids the reductionism of setting up any simple frameworks of "Shakespeare's development" or "Shakespeare's world-view" and displays his usual vast range of reference and depth of acuity. Hallett Smith's little...
From all over Thailand they came. Farmers, folk singers, hill-tribe leaders, journalists, lawyers, businessmen and provincial officials streamed into Bangkok and filled the capital's plush hotels. They were among the more than 2,300 delegates called to a National Convention by King Bhumibol Adulyadej. He had complained that "the good people in Thailand don't want to take the power, and the bad people do." To remedy that and to help fill the political vacuum that has existed since the military-dominated regime was overthrown after a bloody student revolt last October, the King convened...
...largest producer of coins and medals for collectors, which he founded. He retires this week as chairman, five years after he voluntarily began easing out so that he could focus on his other interests, including the United Nations Association, whose board of governors he heads, and a plush Swiss hotel he owns with his wife...
...That is the tag on a custom-made "contemplative environment"-the latest extravaganza offered in the Neiman-Marcus department-store Christmas catalogue. "Very basically, it's enclosure, the womb," declares the environment's design chief, Richard Stonis. While it is not exactly Walden Pond, the plush private world is like a self-contained dollhouse that can be outfitted with film screens to show custom-made movies, a stand-up bar, isometric exercise equipment, a round water bed and anything else the purchaser might desire...