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...like a virus he is unable or unwilling to shake; at the first performance of The Magic Flute he faints dead away at the piano. Portrait of the artist as a great man: while his wife and father bicker over money in the next room, Mozart slumps over a billiard table, takes a swig of wine and fleshes out Ah tutti contenti from The Marriage of Figaro, creating music of domestic ecstasy out of the discord of his family life...
...further nettled by his son's marriage to the daughter of a financier, whose occupation Sir Arthur views as "almost as low as being in trade." The old man also rails at the spread of public education and the rumor that some London clubs are using billiard balls composed not exclusively of ivory...
...core of every magic trick is a lie. When the silk has changed its color, when the chosen card has appeared, when the billiard balls have multiplied, rest assured that some lie has been told. The silk, the card, the balls--they do not tell the lie. The lie is not in the performance, but in the observation...
...able to study firsthand America's deadliest commercial competitors. There are notable differences in style, he reports: "Detroit's press previews used to be orchestrated like TV spectaculars, with carefully scripted speeches, followed by eating and drinking and Ella Fitzgerald singing, Minnesota Fats doing billiard tricks, or Glenn Miller's band creating nostalgia. The merchandising was razzle-dazzle, the sales claims often outrageous and heady." Not so in Tokyo. "The typical Japanese new car preview," says Reingold, "is an hour in a packed, hot hotel salon facing a phalanx of unsmiling engineers." But Reingold admits, "Even without...
...assistant and modeled his best-selling 1955 novel, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, partly on his boss. Says Wilson: "Roy had energy, courtesy, selfdiscipline. When most people were running on twelve volts, he was running on 440 volts. Asking him for a raise was like stabbing a billiard ball, but he had class. When I showed him my novel and asked if he wanted any changes, he said, 'Say anything you want to about me except that I asked a good writer to change a good book...