Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There, with only three aides present, an extraordinary confrontation took place. For eight hours, Brandt, the author of West Germany's policy of conciliation toward Eastern Europe, talked with the U.S.S.R.'s ranking authority on German problems, Pyotr Abrasimov, the Russian Ambassador to East Germany and a member of the Communist Party Central Committee...
...this author who sports the name of the 18th century philosopher of capitalism and who gambols over the arcane and volatile ground of Wall Street and international finance? John Kenneth Galbraith pleads innocent. Is the Wall Street Journal perhaps sheltering an upstart? No. Impeccable leaks lead to George J. W. Goodman, 37, a former Rhodes scholar, novelist (The Wheeler Dealers), onetime writer for TIME and FORTUNE, and now editor of a journal for mutual-fund managers. A shade under medium height, conservatively sheared, dressed and spectacled, Goodman blends in perfectly with the traffic on Wall Street. He is the archetypal...
...Income. The author believes that 90% of investors are, whether they know it or not, more interested in fantasy and ego massage than in making money. Some are even happier when they lose. He backs up these provocative assertions with references from the works of authorities on human behavior. One is the psychoanalytical historian Norman O. Brown (Life Against Death), who argues that making money with money simply for money's sake is an infantile and perverse attempt to achieve immortality. But, Smith/Goodman says, Brown fails to account for the fun that can be had in mating dollars with...
...name of the game, says the author is "What Is Everybody Else Doing?" For only when the player knows what the crowd is thinking can he stay ahead. Chartists, mathematicians, statisticians, computers and dart throwers all get a chance to show their stuff under his skeptical gaze. Drawing from Gustave le Bon's 1895 book The Crowd, he views the investing public as a highly volatile and irrational mass mind that usually overreacts and does the wrong thing. Yet Smith/Goodman is neither dogmatist nor snob, as evidenced by his parody of Kipling: "If you can keep your head when...
...exercise in justification, McCarthy does not succeed. It is nevertheless a revealing and fascinating book, exposing its author as a man still skilled at innuendo and doublethink. Cohn employs these skills in a brief that is fat with incident and quotation-incident that is sometimes only remotely relevant, and quotation that is usually favorable. One of Cohn's own statements is devastating enough: he writes that McCarthy "bought Communism [as an issue] in much the same way as other people purchase a new automobile...