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...larger stake in their own industry. In addition, Gordon's plan to give tax reductions to foreign-owned companies that sell at least 25% of their stock to Canadians has met surprising success. Spurred by this incentive, subsidiaries as diverse as those of Du Pont and Reader's Digest have put shares on the block...
...almost any spy story there comes a moment when a reader with his eyes open is forced to say to himself "this whole plot is downright ridiculous." No matter how skillful the author, unless he is that rare Graham Greene with the ability to tell stories about spies instead of spy stories, he inevitably introduces the jarring, discordant note which drives the whole plot beyond the limits of believability...
...wave of recent spy novels attempted to combat this inevitable moment by conceding defeat--by making the story so essentially ridiculous that the reader begins and ends in disbelief...
...book seems aimed at that middle group of music listeners who do not take music very seriously or think much about its importance; the book could arouse such people from semi-indifference. But this is not a book of broad interest. The reader who knows nothing about music will be uninterested in the specific problems of music teaching, music reviewing, and musicology which Woodworth tackles. And the serious listener will find himself bored, perhaps insulted, by Woodworth's not very eloquent statements telling him now music can uplift his soul and how he should be tolerant of twentieth century dissonances...
...word about professorial metaphors: the reader does not expect flowing and melodious prose in a book of this kind, but he could request Woodworth not to write sentences like "Local companies need not espouse either horn of the dilemma..." And in making a very simple point on page 96, Woodworth uses an extended metaphor which includes cores, roots, flowers, fruit, tangents, shooting stars, and satellites...