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...GENTLE BARBARIAN by V.S. PRITCHETT 243 pages. Random House...
Martin S. Feldstein, professor of Economics, said his study showed the decline in corporate profits since World War II reflected "the random churnings" of the business cycle and not any prolonged deterioration of the profit rate. He said political influences such as oil price controls also contributed to the declining profits...
...pages. Random House...
...haired Lewis has recreated Walpole's library. Portraits of Walpole's family adorn the walls, and a converted squash court houses Lewis' huge holding of 18th century satirical prints. The collection is cross-referenced on 60,000 cards, so detailed that Lewis can easily answer a random question on the length of curtains in Georgian homes. Would Walpole approve? "Oh, yes, terribly," Lewis smiles. The richly furnished estate, plus the collection, will become, on Lewis' death, Yale at Farmington. It is meant, says Lewis, for "the tip-top people in the period. I want wizards...
...years later, is of a group of young out-of-town women, apparent veterans of Krok concerts, clamoring for seats in the front row of Sanders. Half-way through a song in the second half, when a bearded and chivalrous Krok stepped out into the audience to take a random young woman by the hand onto the stage, it occurred to me what the seating ruckus was all about. I suppose it must be traditional by now that a pretty young thing gets escorted onstage so the thirteen finger-snapping young men can ooh, aah, ooh at her while...