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...they approach such Goodwin articles as "The Multiplier as Matrix," ("in which I generalize Keynes' 'General Theory'"), or "Secular and Cyclical Aspects of the Multiplier and Accelerator." In vain they look for things familiar in a maze of matrices, mechanisms, and differential equations. The uninitiated must turn skeptic, or search not scattered passages written, for backward readers, in English...
...return rather than sounder securities with lower returns. They have further delivered themselves from temptation by arbitrarily paying the college a stated income on endowments (4.2% this year), putting the excess in a reserve to draw on in bad years. Thus, they are less tempted to take flyers in search of high, short-term returns. Treasurer Cabot hopes to add to the reserve, which last year totaled $5,687,009, until it equals one year's investment income (last year: $7,500,000). Thus, the fund (which contributes only 25% of the income needed to run Harvard) will take...
...with excitement. Veteran Crime Novelist W. R. Burnett (Little Caesar; High Sierra) knows the underworld jungle and has a keen ear for its talk. In his study of Arky's misplaced loyalty, he even tries to find some human motive behind the squalor of his story. In the search, he overdoes the idea that most of Arky's hoodlum ways can be explained by a poverty-stricken boyhood. Otherwise, the book is almost as unsentimental as Frank Costello on television...
...Australian disc jockey, who picked up the record in a back street in Hong Kong, brought it to London with him last winter. The oriental lilt caught the British fancy. A flood of letters and inquiries at record shops sent Columbia Records' British affiliate on a hot-breathed search for the old master copy of the Chinese record. Their Far Eastern division finally uncovered it in India, flew it to London...
...reproduce destroyed sections as faithfully as possible, Chauvel had sent workmen to Chartres and Reims to learn what other church builders knew about medieval construction techniques. Scholars were commissioned to search out old books and manuscripts containing hints on gothic church building...