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...MAGIC BARREL, by Bernard Malamud. A fine collection of short stories of which only two or three fail to click. They are strung on the theme that the good one man does to another forever enslaves the donor to the fate of the receiver. Most of the characters are Jewish, some of the developments are fantastic, and even the most commonplace of Malamud's yarns has an air of accidental fantasy...
...gift is the largest that has so far been contributed to the fund, surpassing by $500,000 the theatre gift by John L. Loeb '24 given in the spring of 1957. The donor would not divulge publicly any details of his gift...
Giftmanship involves so many that some companies spend $100,000 or more on gifts alone each Christmas. Expense is the least of it. How does a donor ever decide who gets what? Dallas' Temco Aircraft learned that the "who" had to include just about everyone. It stopped giving altogether because it might spend weeks working on a list, then forgot one important customer who was so offended that all the good work was undone...
...what he could get out of a thing, he made few forays into the more creative spheres of machine building or organized social planning. Like his social security (the ten dollar handouts), his civic improvements were piecemeal affairs where he made sure that the recipient knew about the donor, and where the donor was himself a recipient...
...towards increasing the size and effectiveness of its military establishment than would otherwise be possible for it to maintain. The specific nature and purpose of military aid makes it more honest although perhaps less self-righteous and should be an appreciable advantage from the point of view of the donor country. There are no grounds for regarding the new regime as a puppet seeking to perpetuate itself by means of any foreign military...