Even after his studious and terrifying accounting session, which reveals the true depth of his debt, John, overwhelmed, stuffs everything in his desk drawer and walks away.
Those of us brought up in an age when churchgoing was rather more common than it is today will understand the length and depth of our debt to the poetry contained in the King James Bible.
Mr. Maazel saluted back: "How can I ever express my gratitude, the depth of the debt I owe the V.P.O. for the unwavering support they have tendered me since Day 1 of our musical bonding?" Day 1 came in 1962, when Mr. Maazel — who turns 82 on Tuesday and was then already a well traveled maestro — filled in for an indisposed Herbert von Karajan.
Noting the depths of the debt crisis facing Greece, and the threat it now poses to Italy and Spain, the prime minister warned that "bankruptcy" for European governments was "no longer an abstract word".
But it is humbling to recall the breadth and depth of our literary debt to a thirty-year-old physician who set out to cure his anesthesia.
But if it really is to endure, then the means of advancing it will surely have to evolve, taking full account of unpleasant realities: the scale of the debt; the depth of public suspicion not just of government but of most institutions; courts that have grown hostile to claims of civil rights and assertions of governmental power; and the tenuousness of our commitment to the common good.
Nerves around Spain's creditworthiness – whose economy is twice the size of that of Greece, Ireland and Portugal combined – had settled somewhat since the depths of the eurozone debt crisis last year.
After the last few years, when the economy went through the depths of a recession, debt seems to have become a bad thing.
Because of Brexit, growth in the UK and other EU economies are now moving in opposite directions," said Sentance, a senior economic adviser at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Eurozone GDP rose by 0.6% in the three months to June, twice as fast as the UK's in the second quarter of 2017, underlining the currency bloc's recovery from the depths of the Greek debt crisis.
Gideon Skinner, Head of Political Research at Ipsos MORI said: "With the debate about Britain's relationship with the EU a hot topic right now, our poll shows support for Britain's membership is up significantly since the depths of the Eurozone debt crisis in 2011 – although that does not mean that the public simply want the relationship to stay the same.
