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...area needing little attention was the metals division, which provides more than half the company's profits and almost a third of its revenues. The keystone of this division is Luria Bros. & Co., the world's largest scrap-metal firm. Ablon, a onetime business instructor at Ohio State who came to Ogden from Luria in 1962, is satisfied with the conglomerate's progress but far from smug about it. Having got Ogden moving again, Ablon dryly remarks: "The most positive thing we can do now is not to blow...
...LURIA 165 pages. Basic Books...
...long it took him to compose that sentence is not precisely known. But after 25 years of daily effort, he has managed some 3,000 pages about his illness. The Man with a Shattered World is a selection of Zasetsky's writings, arranged and commented on by A.R. Luria, professor of psychology at the University of Moscow. The book is equally as remarkable a document as Luria's The Mind of a Mnemonist (1968), which was about a man, otherwise rather ordinary, who suffered from a mind that could not forget anything...
...fought-and still fights-to escape "that know-nothing world of emptiness and amnesia" makes him anything but ordinary. The mystery of his doggedness lies somewhere in the undamaged frontal lobe of his brain. There, at the seat of the personality and emotions, he was able to battle, as Luria says, "with the tenacity of the damned." Writing is Zasetsky's laborious way of thinking. His achievement is that he has managed, after untold agonies and frustrations, to describe his unending confusions with terrible clarity. It would take a lobotomized Samuel Beckett to match it. - R.Z.S...
...Luria said that the Center has been in the planning process for about 18 months. He said he tried to obtain $14 million--a figure that exceeds the initial grants by $8 million...