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...years ago. In fact, the author, with customary hubris, goes so far as to quote his previous work as an example of a historic consensus: world government can be the only real solution to the nuclear crisis--this consensus, by the way, includes such luminaries as nuke guru. Herman Kahn, Harvard's Living With Nuclear Weapons gang, MIT nuclear specialist George Rathjens. Bertrand Russell, Grenville Clark, and Louis B. Sohn Schell explains parenthetically. "I take the liberty of quoting myself again only because I wish to acknowledge my former adherence to a point of view with which I now propose...
...hell out of Christine's beachhouse inferno. He is, infact, put in the position of playing straight man to all the outrageous "clues" the plot offers Krabbe's magnificent portrayal of a very un-straight obsession keeps the character from being an imbecile, even given the vacuous tackiness of Herman, Christine's lover and his object of lust. Herman turns out to be a German plumbing contractor who not only looks, but sounds, like a talking centerfold...
...Timberland shoe company (1983 sales: $60 million), based in the rural hamlet of Newmarket, N.H., has weathered the foreign onslaught and added 900 workers over the past five years. "We benefited from the lack of imagination of some of the other old shoe companies around here," says Herman Swartz, president of the family-owned concern. Fully one-quarter of Timberland's sales have come from exports since its classic penny loafers became a hit in Europe...
...antics may seem comical to anyone who remembers a sketch by the Second City acting company that portrayed a U. of C. football player confusing left guard with Kierkegaard. Maybe that is the intention. Insists Herman Sinaiko, dean of students: "I want happy students. If they're sitting around worrying, they can't read Dostoyevsky the way they should." The students seem to be getting into the spirit of things. HO, HO, reads a T shirt being sold by a group of undergraduates. THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO IS FUNNIER THAN YOU THINK...
...hauling such celebrities as the Burtons and Jackie Onassis into the action: "There is nothing wrong with this if you have a point to make about them. But he has nothing to say." Vidal twitted Frederick Forsyth for piling facts into "freight-car sentences." He was kinder to Herman Wouk and The Winds of War, praising the historical research, quoting a description of F.D.R. and announcing: "This is not at all bad, except as prose...