Word: prometheus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While quite willing to benefit from Government support, businessmen nevertheless complain with much justice that the leaden hand of Government undermines the freedom and incentives that make capitalism so productive. Managers see themselves as Prometheus bound, unable to launch a new product or finance research into a tempting field without completing a fat book of federal forms and paying exorbitant, sometimes needless expenses. Complains Pennzoil Chairman J. Hugh Liedtke: "We sit here in management meetings deciding on projects that may cost hundreds of millions of dollars. But we do not know what the Government regulations will be for pricing, importing...
Golding's attention to fires--with their Promethean connotations--is not incidental. Matty's only background is the fire, whose flames have virtually given birth to him. Like Prometheus, Matty must live separate from the rest, with an "unchildlike smile." He weeps adult tears--but much earlier in his lifetime than Ralph...