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...Misanthrope. This is quite possibly Moliere's sharpest social commentary, although it bombed in 1666. Alceste is the misanthrope, a man obsessed with sincerity and full of hatred for polite society, which he considers founded on flattery, mendacity and falsehood. Alceste's love for a flitty coquette becomes his last link to mankind. Inevitably, he discovers her insincerity too, reinforcing his misanthropic idealism and leaving him unloved and unloving...
Some of the sharpest criticism of Smith's policies came in the cities and towns, where terrorism is increasing. In Salisbury the Prime Minister was heckled by a group of ex-servicemen still committed to the idea of a military solution. Some critics called the referendum a "mandate for disaster," and one young veteran taunted Smith with the words of another current song: "Will someone tell us why we fight?/ Why what once was wrong is now what's right?" Nobody tried to explain that, by fighting off political change for so many years, the Smith government...
...page. Dubin's Lives presents not only the hero but the women around him. Kitty, Fanny, Dubin's daughter Maud all pull away from their orbits around Dubin and strike out in directions he cannot predict. Without uttering a single polemic, Malamud builds one of the sharpest images of women's liberation in contemporary fiction...
...dividend cut shocked Wall Street traders, who apparently saw it as a harbinger of many more to come. Stock prices, which had registered their sharpest one-day run-up ever (35 points) during the initial euphoria over the dollar-rescue program, fell back heavily; last Tuesday the Dow Jones industrial average tumbled 14.81 points. At week's end it was moving in a narrow range just above 800, but nobody could be sure it would hold there. Some brokers fear that a combination of high interest rates and the threat (or fact) of recession could push the average down...
Iacocca's return was almost as startling as his departure. Only last July, one of Detroit's sharpest marketing men was abruptly ousted after 32 years at Ford, the last eight years as president. The precise reasons for Iacocca's downfall are still unclear, but at least one of the causes was a clash of wills with Chairman Henry Ford II. After his firing formally took effect in mid-October, Iacocca was relegated to a drab, linoleum-floored office in a spare-parts warehouse near Ford's headquarters in Dearborn, Mich...