Word: haverkamp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Haverkamp. He is still making millions, and looks back with relish on his rise from a poor real-estate speculator to financier. In Work and Play he sets about divorcing his wife (and ex-secretary). He also gets mixed up, to his embarrassment, with architects, interior decorators and his private secretary, backs a play for his mistress and tries to hire politically ambitious Jerphanion as his secretary...
...summer of great famine; the New Economic Policy is but a few months old. The torn political-economic tissues-which had bound Russia to Western Europe are beginning to mend, and European capitalists are coming to Moscow "like so many giant corpuscles working towards an abscess." Corpuscle Haverkamp and Corpuscle Champcenais are among them; their attitude towards Soviet Russia is that of imperial colonizers toward a savage kingdom. Warmer and more confused is the attitude of Minister Buitton and Jerphanion, who is his secretary. But Jerphanion confesses: "What I actually found was a lot of noisy fellows who started lying...
...headquarters, where a stiff-necked major refuses to admit a major attack, delays for hours any countermeasures; to General Duroure, shocked to the depths of his soul because a Zeppelin has dropped a bomb on his headquarters, destroying his "things"; to an expensive restaurant in Paris, where the manufacturer, Haverkamp, turns a neat deal in grenades over partridge and Burgundy. These characters are not satirized; they don't have...