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...thrive. With them swells the horde of over one thousand books (and counting) on Eliot--biographies, criticism, memoirs, recollections, analyses. T.S. Matthews's Great Tom is one more goose from this gaggle, peddling no easy answers to the Eliot enigma. Its value lies in its subject: As Ezra Pound said, "The more we know of Eliot, the better...
...story of Ezra Pound's great hearted help to Eliot in the early London years is familiar, especially since the recent discovery of Eliot's original Waste Land manuscript with Pound's extensive excisions and imperious editorial notes. In dealing with it, Matthews tends to overvalue many of the lines Pound cut and to assume that if Pound had failed him, Eliot would never have got round to cutting them himself...
...hikes of up to 30%, charging their demands are inflationary. "Inflation," declared Heath, "is the most insidious enemy a nation can face." He depicts the miners -and the Labor Party with which they are most closely allied-as controlled by militant leftists. A typical Tory television spot shows pound notes being flung at a miner's helmet. Then Heath appears, saying he has no quarrel with the unions, only with "extremists" who seek to bring down the elected government...
...most famous instance in which he was inadvertently involved, occurred when James was standing around in a south Florida wood when several 50 pound bales of Jamaican fell from...
...beleaguered economy. As the country wound up its third three-day work week, the costs in lost production soared to nearly $1 billion. Critics were quick to point out that the annual wage settlement sought by the miners totaled only $200 million. On the international money markets, the pound fell to $2.16, its lowest value ever against the American dollar. Nearly a million Britons had lined up for the dole. Said Lord Stokes, chairman of British Leyland: "I suggest with respect that Heath doesn't quite understand. The whole thing will collapse like a house of cards...