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...millions with bestsellers like The Razor's Edge- and wise investments- saw his own literary value in a more positive light. He called himself a storyteller, "in the very first row of the second-raters." The appraisal was disarmingly accurate and deceptively aggressive: the highbrows in low tax brack ets could eat their hearts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Old Man by the Sea | 3/10/1980 | See Source »

Conservationist Felipe Benavides president of the Peruvian branch of the World Wildlife Fund, warns that the decision will ensure the species' doom. But government officials, notably Antonio Brack, who worked with the World Wildlife Fund until he was tapped to head the Special Project for the Rational Use of the Vicuña, deny that the beast is threatened. Brack insists that the population is increasing so rapidly (by 23% a year) that the culling should not have any harmful long-range effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Hapless Vicu | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

...Sergeant Robert Brack, 29, edged his maroon sedan through the underbrush, his headlights picked out two giant vans. Suddenly there was a roar of boat engines and rifle fire. Pinned down, Brack held off the attackers until help came. Two shrimp boats packed with pot ran aground in the confusion. Surrounded in the thicket, a gang of eleven men was captured, along with $14 million in grass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Pot Smugglers' Paradise | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

...Helen Brack left behind $21 million-and no clues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Case of the Missing Widow | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

With the exception of Margaret Heilbrun's kindly, effusive Aunt Julia, the other performances also fail to satisfy. Like Hedda, Judge Brack treats those around him with ironically-concealed scorn, matching Hedda's intelligence and selfishness in an intricate struggle for power. But Sam Merrick's wooden caricature blunts Aquino's subtlety. By the end of the play, his languid arrogance and unvarying inflection--each line curved with a sneer--have become thoroughly tiresome. While Ibsen undoubtedly intended Thea Elvsted to be a bland contrast to Hedda, Jennifer Mohr's dull, anxious characterization offers no emotional range or sense...

Author: By Jurretta J. Heckscher, | Title: A Hedda Its Time | 12/8/1977 | See Source »

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