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...anti-particles. --Allen Herzog...
...behind. Concluded the editorial: "Would that we had such boors" as Sadat. Rabin indicated that he was ready to negotiate with Arab leaders, but otherwise the response from Israeli officials was skeptical and even derisive in tone. In the U.N. Assembly debate on Palestine, Israeli Ambassador Chaim Herzog spoke contemptuously of "those soothing sounds emanating from various capitals in the Middle East...
...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...