Word: hitleritis
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...gently, to abandon his railroad-coupling factory and take on an important assignment for the Nazis. The Third Reich needs vast amounts of wolfram, i.e., tungsten, to use as an alloy in solid-core ammunition, essential for tank warfare, and the present supply from China will cease once Hitler breaks his nonaggression pact with Stalin. Portugal has wolfram, and Felsen speaks Portuguese, a memento from his past affair with a Brazilian woman. Ergo, Felsen will go to Portugal and somehow find 3,000 tons of wolfram per year to ship back to Germany...
...CATHY FREEMAN You could argue--and we do--that the women's 400-m run in Sydney was the most sociopolitically burdened footrace since Jesse Owens ran upside Hitler. Under enormous pressure, the Aborigine Freeman came through magnificently in front of her cheering, weeping countrymen. She said she had run for her nation--and for her persecuted people...
...smart guys of the business world and the talented goofballs who make entertainment in this increasingly entertainment-hungry society. Publishers, investors and media watchers see a venture like The Plant and say, "Ah, King is moving into e-commerce!" in the tones of 1940s newscasters relaying the news that Hitler is moving east. King, in the meantime, is thinking something along the lines of, "Hey guys! My uncle's got a barn! Let's put on a show!" It's a goofy thing, in other words. Not a business thing at all. Which, may I add, isn't the same...
...Hitler, but I was a good Hitler," Fagin says with a characteristic smile at the Brookline headquarters of the reincarnated press, an hour from Harvard. "I came back to New York in 1967 to live permanently, and right away was involved in a community of writers. My way of being involved was to cleave them to me and control them all by starting a little magazine. It became a kind of benign power, and at the same time a friendly way to involve myself. That was my original motivation...
...state. They will want to fling themselves off cliffs, like the Japanese on Okinawa when the Americans arrived in 1945. That's the human nature of politics. When Rudolph Giuliani first ran for mayor of New York City, the editorial board of The New York Times sounded as if Hitler himself aspired to City Hall. In the fullness of time, the Times came to concede that in many respects, Giuliani proved to be an excellent mayor...