Word: kaufman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...question is asked by the novel's vibrant, sorrowful hero. Benoit Kaufman, a Romany who survives the concentration camps as a boy to become a successful protraitist of the rich and famous. Yet, unable to shake his past. Ben finally dedicates himself to avenge all those men, women, and children who were shot, gassed and incinerated. The specific object of his wrath is a fellow gypsy, a former Nazi collaborator who saved his own life by participating in the slaughter of others...
...Kaufman as a child may remind readers of the fugitive youth in Jerzy Kosinki's The Painted Bird. Kaufman the avenger is also reminiscent of Kosinski's Cockpit and Blind Date. But there is a crucial difference. Kosinski's fiction is cold, clinical, beyond ideaology or feeling. In the Eighth Sin, vengeance is passionate, even humane. Though the book's structure is somewhat programmatic. Kaufer, a senior editor of time, has given the familiar documentary evidence of the death camps and their aftermath a persuasive and moving life in fiction...
Guzzi also charged Robert Tillman '78, Carl Kaufman '77 and Brian Desmond, a Boston-area resident, all former Dillon employees, with transacting business from Dillon's office without being registered as agents with the Massachusetts Securities Division of the Secretary of State's Office...
Tillman said last night he was surprised by the charges but expected they would be dropped after further investigation. He denied he ever actually served as a broker for Dillon, although he worked there for several months. Kaufman and Desmond could not be reached for comment...
...regulation requiring every student to take at least one course in legal ethics before being given a degree. Instituted in the fall of 1975, the requirement was started because "it was felt that our graduates should have some sense of practical and professional problems as practicing lawyers," Andrew L. Kaufman '51, professor of Law, says...