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...prone to cowboy delusions. There is a mystifying section in The Schirmer Inheritance where a woman whose family has been killed by the Gestapo--a rabid German-hater--falls passionately in love with a dominant and brutal ex-Nazi, as though this is the other side of the coin. But in general Ambler has a wide and realistic understanding of how the world works: each book is rich in historical detail, psychological insight, and another added element which might be called technique--How to do things. The "hero" of Passage of Arms is a shipment of guns originating with communist...
...workaday America so subtly that only on occasion do people realize how important it has become. The U.S. Postal Service got away with raising postal rates at the end of the year after only a moderate amount of protest; but when the agency simultaneously shut down 2,400 coin-operated copiers in post offices (after complaints from private copy-service interests), public outrage was strong enough to have most of the machines restored. Much of the evidence that toppled Richard Nixon and his Watergate conspirators came from photocopied documents leaked to the press or uncovered by Government investigators. Many recent...
After six months of malfunctioning, the coin-operated photocopying machines in the periodical room of Widener Library and on the first floor of Lamont Library have been replaced...
Other stories could be told here. There is Pat Caddell, now an independent pollster, who senior year was whispering strategy in George McGovern's ear. Jim Halperin, who dropped out sophomore year to devote more time to his stamp-dealing business--three years later, Halperin owns the most valuable coin in the world and employs his father as a vice-president. The three Lampoon editors who turned their Harvard activity into a national magazine and made their first millions at age 23. These people may have found a private harmony to match their public success, and they may not have...
...first "happening" along with composer John Cage and working alongside writers such as Charles Olson and Robert Creeley (Olson once composed a prose choreography for Cunningham called "Apollonius of Tyana."). Cunningham is known for using chance methods in his choreography, even to the point where the flip of a coin would determine the next movement in a dance...