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...WILLIAM IRWIN THOMPSON, U.S. historian-mystic: Gandhi. For a society to be healthy, it must seek centers of authority and leadership that do not necessarily derive from political or economic power but from cultural and spiritual values as well. Mao recognized this; he did try to give up his power and lead through the authority of his Little Red Book-but he abandoned this effort because of the chaos that resulted from the Cultural Revolution...
...been part of Vesco's corpo rate empire. Eisenhauer had a bold plan to recover Fairfield General's principal asset-Vesco's 707-and he took it to the company's receivers. They in turn took the idea to New Jersey Superior Court Judge Irwin Kimmelman, who was overseeing efforts to liquidate Fairfield General. After a few discreet phone calls located the plane at Panama City's Tocumen International Airport, the judge authorized Fairfield General to advance Eisenhauer $17,500 on his claim. The pilot then headed for Panama with two colleagues...
...JAMES IRWIN...
...this particular shore leave Harry has undergone a sea change, and out of that change and its effects 38-year-old "James Irwin" (actually Edward J. Moore under a pseudonym) has fashioned a first play that is robust, touching, funny and nakedly honest. The Sea Horse divides neatly into two parts that might be subtitled "Spar and Tell." The first act is a land of sexual scrimmage with earthy roughhousing on Gert's part and some wild and woozy comic foolery on Harry's. The tone is that of a mating between Steinbeck and Saroyan...
...underestimates the American public will never go broke!" cried "Professor" Irwin Corey, paraphrasing H.L. Mencken to a dazed National Book Awards' audience in Manhattan. Standing in for Thomas Pynchon, whose Gravity's Rainbow shared the 1973 fiction prize with Isaac Bashevis Singer's A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories, Comedian Corey confused the assembled authors, critics and publishers with a frenetic routine, prompting some to think that he was really the reclusive Pynchon himself. Others believed that his performance was a clever parody of Pynchon's tortuous style. The ceremonies were...