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There's nothing wrong, of course, with quoting good material--provided that it's quotable to begin with, and provided that you have a reason for quoting it. But Jacobs' chief reason for quoting Allen, other than to remind us and herself how great he is, seems to be convenience. Rather than describe articulately what sets one "period" or theme in the work off from another. Jacob tends to rely on a shorthand composed of repeated, encapsulated jokes. "Needing the eggs" is her analytic code for a type of humor she never defines, but which can be deduced...
...founder in 1972 of the Skandinaviska Enskilda Bank, now the most influential commercial bank in Sweden; of a viral infection; in Djurgården, Sweden. Part of the third generation of Wallenberg bankers who have been synonymous with Swedish business for more than a century, Marcus and his brother Jacob (who died two years ago) rebuilt Sweden's industrial strength after the Kreuger crash in 1932. Eventually taking control of such multinational giants as Electrolux, L.M. Ericsson and Saab-Scania, Wallenberg also helped to establish the Scandinavian Airlines System in 1946 and controlled companies that employed one of every...
Pabst is gradually pushing the price of its Blue Ribbon brand back up again in an effort to restore its status as a premium beer. For now, though, the company's hopes for stronger sales rest chiefly with its own new entrant into the low-cal sweepstakes, Jacob Best Premium Light, and its popular West Coast superpremium brand, Henry Weinhard Private Reserve...
Your news story "New Federalism and Education: Federal Student Aid Cutbacks Force Massachusetts to Respond" that appeared over the-by-line of Jacob M. Schlesinger in your May I issue was recently called to my attention. In the story, Mr. Schlesinger refers to the press conference held at Suffolk University at which a study by the Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation, "Higher Education in Massachusetts: A Study of Enrollment and Financial Aid Requirements For Its Support" was released...
...weeks ago, a handful of survivors of the Titanic came together in a Philadelphia hotel to observe the 70th anniversary of the sinking. They fetched out their memories of that night and passed them around like photographs. They gazed at a few forlorn relics of the voyage: Mrs. John Jacob Astor's life jacket, a battered deck chair, other odds and ends from the unsinkable "Floating Palace" before it went down...