Word: axel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...public relations officer for a huge shipbuilding corporation. Among the people he encounters: Annerose, a muddled, blue-eyed Venus who has deserted a wealthy husband, set herself up as a fashionable couturiere, and now longs for a "total commitment"-to a person, to a cause, to anything at all; Axel, a dazzling, dispassionate mystic of the absurd who has resigned his university lectureship to work in a hospital ward for thalidomide babies and preach a gospel of gratuitous, existential love, which Annerose finds appealing but scarcely persuasive; Octavio, a muscular young industrialist who believes in exactly nothing and who finally...
Poems & Twenty-Five Poems. Paul Valery, Charmes & La Jeune Parque. Arthur Waley, 770 Chinese Poems. Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall. Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts. William Carlos Williams, Paterson. Edmund Wilson, Axel's Castle. Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse...
...Falling was more than a remote possibility, because Peggy's free-skating routine included the usual spins and splits-plus such exacting specialties as a "half one-and-a-half double cherry flip combination" and a "spread eagle-double axel-spread eagle...
...Texas oil business is comparable." Worrisome Rumors. Revue's sale only adds to the turmoil of the illustrateds. None of the competition is particularly worried by Quick's promises to continue to publish Revue, but there is considerable concern about a third party to the deal. Axel Springer, Germany's biggest press king, bought Revue's smaller companion magazine Bravo, as well as Kindler's elaborate printing plant near Munich. Though Springer, who now publishes five big dailies, denies he has any intention of entering the illustrated magazine field, rumors abound that he has formed...
...biggest German salaries are in the auto indus try, topped by an estimated $250,000 paid to Daimler-Benz's Walter Hitzinger. Only one German businessman exceeds the magic million-marks-a-year ($250,000) salary ceiling: Christian Kracht, 44, top manager for Press Magnate Axel Springer...