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...VICTIM (294 pp.)-Saul Bellow-Vanguard...
Down the Garden Path. Outside his own Christian circle, Lewis is not particularly popular with his Oxford colleagues. Some resent his large student following. Others criticize his "cheap" performances on the BBC and sneer at him as a "popularizer." There are complaints about his rudeness (he is inclined to bellow "Nonsense !" in the heat of an argument when a conventionally polite 25-word circumlocution would be better form). But their most serious charge is that Lewis' theological pamphleteering is a kind of academic heresy...
...Sauerbruch has been known to perform three operations at once: his assistants cut open the patients and Sauerbruch moved from table to table to make the crucial excisions. He invariably operates barehanded. Rubber gloves, he says, destroy the delicate feel of his work. A Sauerbruch operation is a continuous bellow; he shouts at his assistants, shouts for his instruments. Once, irked by a clumsy assistant, he slashed the fellow with his scalpel to teach him a lesson...
...likewise. He keeps a six-seater converted C-47 (complete with bar, three couches and card table) to whisk him back & forth from his 120,000-acre Mexican ranch, where he goes to hunt and fish. And his way of announcing his arrival at home is to bellow to his houseman: "Start the juleps rolling...
Many stockholders immediately let out a bellow against Bell. Loudest came from Wall Streeter Jackson Martindell, whose company, Fiduciary Management, Inc., owns or controls 14,300 Bell shares. So Bell dropped the stock option plan. With Edward R. Stettinius Jr., Martindell set up a committee to oust seven of Bell's board, charging Bell was not entitled to the benefits...