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Peter Peterson, the Greek hash-house owner's son who rose to the presidency of Bell & Howell before he was 35, and Lewis Glucksman, the Manhattan lamp manufacturer's son who scrapped his way up through Lehman's unprestigious but increasingly profitable stock-and-bond-trading department, might have been born enemies. Peterson emerges as cold, almost oblivious to the people around him. A close associate who may have saved his life during a seizure recalls that Peterson never thanked him. Glucksman was mercurial, an "emotional volcano" in the phrase of a colleague, who might kiss or curse fellow employees...
When Peterson, then 57, made Glucksman, also 57, his co-chief executive officer in May 1983, the move seemed a diplomatic acknowledgment that Glucksman's views were right. But Glucksman wanted total control and feared, rightly, that Peterson secretly hoped to sell Lehman at a premium before he reached age 60 and had to let the firm begin redeeming his shares. Glucksman sensed that Peterson had no stomach for a fight and would opt to be bought out. So, eight weeks after being promoted, he demanded that Peterson step aside...
Author of “Billy Bathgate” and other acclaimed fiction works, Doctorow is currently the Glucksman Professor in American Letters and Professor of English at New York University...
Currently the Glucksman Professor in American Letters and Professor of English at New York University, Doctorow has garnered a slew of honors, including the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award...
Wuthering Heights operates counter to this scheme, making the show seem self-indulgent. The actors, particularly Glucksman, are having a blast, as they act the Tom Cruise fantasy scene with loud music, costumes, and a crowd. But the audience is less happy, trapped in someone else's dream without the requisite backdrops and richness of scenery that might be needed to carry the fantasy to reality...