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...food and money, protectively escorts him everywhere to keep him on the straight and narrow. "People say Bud is crazy or lost or silent." says Poudras, "but he is really in a state of grace." Powell still spends most evenings sitting quietly alone, smiling to himself, wrapped in a cocoon of benign silence. Yet to anyone who has seen him since he fled to Europe, he seems to have undergone a miracle cure. On good days now he even chats happily. For the first time in years, his message is hopeful: "Please tell everybody that...
Elmer Leopold Reizenstein grew up in Manhattan in a family of decent-hearted intellectual ciphers who owned no books. His mother smothered him in a cocoon of maternal affection; his father, an epileptic, mainly embarrassed the boy. But there was Grandpa, who took him to plays at the German Theater in Irving Place at an early age, and Uncle Will, who offered to slip him the money for his initial excursion into...
...Cocoon. A beam whose upper half had been partially cut away reminded Marisol of the Mona Lisa: as she examined the grain of the cutaway part, she thought she saw the famous smile. She painted in the face, guided by the grain, and added a pair of plaster hands around the middle of the beam. The result looks as if the Mona Lisa were about to emerge from some sort of wooden cocoon...
...story begins, Clem emerges from his cocoon of dirty laundry onto the Via Veneto for a day or so of wife-sitting with Hilda, pregnant bride of his old school and college pal Mark Stone (né Stein). Stone is now a widely liberal rabbi, and busy with last-minute preparations for his International Conference on Love to be held at the offices of the U.S. Information Service. Hilda and her attendant Clem attend the conference, go to bed, get mixed up in a May Day demonstration in the Piazza del Popolo. Clem knocks Mark cold (with a stone, naturally...
Randall advises the business executive to unwind himself from his cocoon. He should make himself available to news men, "not just the grand interview at the time of the annual meeting, but continuously." When he has strong feelings on public affairs, he should bypass company lobbyists or trade organizations and make his personal views known directly to Congressmen or Cabinet officers. He should speak frequently at colleges and universities, and subject himself to round tables where "questions will be searching but honest-the sort his staff will never...