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...Last Days of America, Erdman...
...White Hotel tries to do just that and, to a startling degree, succeeds. English Author D.M. Thomas, 46, creates an intensely private heroine to whom extraordinarily public things happen. During the course of her fictional life, Lisa Erdman, a modestly talented opera singer of Polish and Ukrainian descent, is forced to make two journeys that propel her around the perimeter of 20th century imagination. She is treated for sexual hysteria by Sigmund Freud in Vienna and, years later, murdered by Nazi soldiers at Babi...
...poem and its prose companion, it then turns out, have been given to Freud ,by Lisa Erdman, their author and his patient. She is suffering from i shortness of breath and debilitating pain in her left breast and left ovary. Conventional medical treatment circa 1919 has failed to cure her. Perhaps Freud's newfangled methods will help...
...Iranian funds immediately became the centerpiece of a financial thriller that might have been written by Paul Erdman, author of The Crash of 79. On the day after the American action, Bank Markazi, the central bank of Iran, instructed Chase Manhattan, the leading bank in a $500 million loan to the government of the Shah, to draw on Iranian assets at U.S. banks in London for payment of an interest installment of $4 million. Because the assets were frozen and payments could not be made on them, the loan became technically in default. Chase hastily polled the eleven other members...
This seriocomic drama is a relentlessly pumped-up footnote to Stalinist repression. It is a police-state curio dating from 1932. After 18 months of rehearsals, The Suicide was banned by the Moscow censors on the night of its dress rehearsal, and its author, Nikolai Erdman (1902-70), fell into abject disfavor...