Word: authored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Author on the Couch
Twentieth Century: In CBS's Gandhi, the scrawny, jug-eared little man in the white loincloth looked as Author John Gunther once saw him: an inscrutable "combination of Jesus Christ, Tammany Hall, and your father." Fuzzy images from old films showed the gentle ascetic all but engulfed by the worshiping, hysterical throngs on the mass pilgrimage to the sea to carry out a plan of passive resistance during the British salt monopoly. There was the shrewd lawyer-diplomat putting his hand over an inquisitive British reporter's mouth or quipping on arrival in London in 1931: "You people...
Essentially, this is the story John (A Pride of Lions) Brooks tells in The Man Who Broke Things. His fictional proxy fight leans heavily on recent headline-splashing struggles, notably the Louis Wolfson-Sewell Avery duel for Montgomery Ward. Author Brooks, 37, handles the mechanics of such a contest with authority and relish. He also poses a more serious psychological question: What makes a big company raider tick...
...Hank. He wants things different. He's a breaker, and you know why? He wants to break things and set them up again so he can be a careful little saver instead of you." Whether the breakers or the savers will carry the day is a suspenseful question Author Brooks does not answer until Great Eastern's final, slam-bang stockholders' meeting...
...often that the author of an autobiography consents to an introduction n which he is compared to a subhuman being. Such is the case of Wolfgang Leonlard, an ex-Stalinist official of East Germany, whose dismal career has apparently foundered on the dismal hope that "national Communism" would be better than the all-too-togetherness of a universal Moscow state. Soviet Expert Edward Crankshaw met Leonhard in Yugoslavia, where, says Crankshaw in his foreword, "he was rather like one of those legendary young men who . . . emerge from the jungle emitting strange sounds, having spent their childhood or adolescence...