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...fight for Rosalie is the organizing theme of the early scenes. The camera reveals Cesar and David through her eyes, as she makes mental comparisons, and the tension is akin to that which accompanies long-winded introductions at championship fights. In this corner, the brusque and straightforward color of Upward Mobility. In the other, the precious and enigmatic allure of Aesthetic Sensibility...
...city and of the human race was at odds with a growing undercurrent of disillusion about man's ability to transform either himself or his world. A Teilhard de Chardin might confidently view man's physical and spiritual evolution in the new scientific world as a limitless upward spiral, but Hitler and Hiroshima suggested that the spiral could also spin downward into new dimensions of evil...
...commercial paper, a form of unsecured IOU, to investors. But Burns is building dikes against a rising tide. So long as the economy booms and the Federal Reserve exercises some restraint in pumping out new money, the price of loans, as Burns and Patman both know, will trend inexorably upward...
...been circulating about Noël's arrival in heaven. A vast assembly of angels and archangels are ranged in serried ranks to greet him. The pearly gates swing open and Noël steps forward; the heavens are hushed, waiting for his first words. His eyes sweep upward from stalls to gallery, pausing for a moment at the Royal Box. Then comes the clipped fastidious accent that has so often echoed from the world below...
...action has been particularly frantic of late, partly because of the international monetary turmoil. Many a speculator has thought that 10,000 lbs. of copper, say, had more potential value than the dollars needed to buy a future on them. More important, commodity prices are being rocketed upward by a huge increase in worldwide demand for U.S. farm products. "Our markets are coming out of the age of surpluses," which always had a potential to depress prices, says CBT Pit Trader Richard H. Mayer...