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...just wish I'd handled the Pasternak affair the way I dealt with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich ((published in 1962)). In that case, I read the book myself. It is very heavy but well written. It made the reader react with revulsion to the conditions in which Ivan Denisovich and his friends lived while they served their terms...
...While Milken earned more than $1 billion as the guru of the now defunct Wall Street firm Drexel Burnham Lambert, friends argued that accumulating vast wealth was never his main goal. Wrote CBS president Laurence Tisch, who said he has known Milken for almost 20 years: "I have rarely dealt with a more dedicated and faithful professional or one more sensitive to the needs and goals of his clients or more mindful of the needs of society at large...
...found two cultural responses amongst the Israelis that I really had not anticipated. Although they were worried, the Israelis dealt with pressure very stoically. Like Saxon warriors of the Dark Ages, Israelis behave fatalistically: since there is always the threat of war, they figure it is best not to dwell...
Moreover, Saddam would have to wonder exactly what George Bush meant when he said gas attacks "would be dealt with very, very severely." The U.S. has its own stockpiles of nerve gas, but it is not likely to contemplate using either & gas or nuclear weapons to retaliate. World opinion might well turn against Washington if it were to order an attack with weapons of mass destruction. Even so, the unspoken threat might have some deterrent effect...
...producer wouldn't play along. Angrily, Mackintosh declared that Equity had created "a poisonous atmosphere in which creativity and artistic freedom cannot function or survive." He then dealt the coup de grace: "If Equity is unwilling to take steps to ensure that reason and fairness prevail, then I have no choice but to cancel Miss Saigon." Gone, for the moment, were the other Saigon roles that would have employed 29 Asian and Asian-American actors. Frozen, for the nonce, was the record $25 million the show had banked in advance ticket sales. Like the event it put to music, Miss...