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...modest and self-effacing. Maclntyre (Peter Riegert), the acquisitions man from Knox Oil and Gas, may think of himself as "a telex man," all hard figures and bottom lines, but once in the field he is entirely capable of going all soppy about a wounded rabbit. His boss, Felix Happer (Burt Lancaster, expertly doing his clean-old-man routine), is anything but the Texas tycoon of fable; he scrambles his own eggs and is an amateur astronomer who orders Maclntyre to keep an eye out for unusual activity around the constellation Virgo as well as along the coveted coastline. Popping...
...Felix Dzerzhinsky, an aristocratic Pole turned revolutionary, was the first head of the Soviet secret police, which was founded shortly after the 1917 Bolshevik revolution...
...correspondents reflects MacLeish's wide-ranging interests and his knack for getting involved with the public of his time. He was particularly close to Amy Lowell, Dean Acheson, and Ernest Hemingway. He wrote often to Henry Luce, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, and T. S. Eliot '10, and occasionally to Felix Frankfurter. J. Robert Oppenheimer and F.D.R. And the letters are full of MacLeish's articulate and often beautifully phrased observations on everything from political campaign strategies to the function of poetry. What emerges is a cohesive portrait of a powerful and flexible mind, of a man with human weaknesses...
...courageous and risky decision, for he had two children by this time, and the choice drew opposition and scorn from friends and family. Many years later he wrote Felix Frankfurter, "I think I was made to suffer as acutely over my decision to quit the law for poetry as it possible to make a man suffer over any decision it is that I gave up a career as a first-rate lawyer to become a third-rate poet...
...warring economic theories have produced casualties. Not the least of them is public confidence, without which no policy can survive. Observes Felix Rohatyn, a senior partner in the investment banking house of Lazard Freres & Co.: "Keynesianism seems to have created a runaway inflation, while supplyside, monetarism and Reaganomics seem on the way to creating a depression. People are not only becoming more skeptical of economic theory, but it is highly appropriate that they do so." Economists will have to trade their old quarrels for some new ideas if they hope to keep that justifiable skepticism from growing...