Word: herzog
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...debate with Ford that he would call corporate and labor leaders together to work out voluntary guidelines for pay and price boosts. But businessmen have not forgotten that early in the campaign Carter spoke of requesting stand-by authority to impose wage-price controls, which executives abhor. Says Raymond Herzog, president of 3M: "The mere mention of federal intervention causes companies to raise their prices in anticipation. Inflation would spiral. Carter should go on the record to stop these rumors...
Despite its geopolitical subject, the result is a typical Bellow production: part meditation, part crank letter, tinged with the doubt of Ecclesiastes and the faith of Moses, full of quicksilver insights and deep Talmudic scholarship. It is as if the Messrs. Sammler, Humboldt and Herzog collaborated on a travel-cum-history book, pulling in several directions to keep it aloft...
Constant Questions. Yet Bellow's progress as a literary figure has in some ways been circuitous. Readers who like the raging energy and fantasy of Henderson the Rain King (1959) do not always thrill to the hothouse introspection of Herzog (1964). Those who can get along with the serious, well-mannered author of Dangling Man (1944) and The Victim (1947) are likely to gasp at the wisecracking Borscht Belt comic who hoofs onstage during parts of Humboldt's Gift. The picaresque hero of The Adventures of Augie March (1953) is a brash New World kid, while a wise...
Leonard, who got the nod for his second start in the series from manager Whitey Herzog, went to the showers early after the Yankees peppered him with three straight hits...
...supplement players developed at home, the team traded for experienced players in key positions. The elements were there, but it remained for Whitey Herzog to mix them. When he took over the team in July of last year, he found a talented but badly divided club of disgruntled veterans and confused younger players. "I held more meetings than Henry Kissinger my first month here," Herzog says. His biggest success has been in stabilizing the pitching staff, especially the bullpen. There, Steve Mingori, a 32-year-old reliever who credits acupuncture for the first pain-free season of his career...