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...Julia Markus...
Philip Roth proved that New Jersey, summer camp and a claustrophobic family life could inspire brilliant satire. Whether they could inspire tragedy remained in doubt until Julia Markus addressed herself to the theme of growing up Jewish in Jersey City. Tragedy requires the decline of a hero, and Markus has invented one-however low key-in this somber, eloquent novel: Irving Bender, the son of East European Jews for whom the immigrant dream of success had come to nothing. "Irv's father drank and gambled and died," she writes in her terse idiom. "The mother got along...
...Bonn's estimate there are still about 8,000 East German spies at large in the Federal Republic; nonetheless, the latest arrests are a serious blow to the prestige of Markus ("Mischa") Wolf, 54, East Germany's Deputy Minister of State Security and top spymaster. A slim, urbane man who favors well-tailored suits and expensive cars, Mischa has run East Germany's espionage operations since 1958 with remarkable success. One major reason: his agents easily mix with the more than 3 million Germans from the Communist East who have moved West since World...
...followed by Mark, then Matthew. While translating Mark from Greek into modern Hebrew, Lindsey kept encountering words and phrases without Hebrew equivalents. Luke, on the other hand, translated so easily into Hebrew that Lindsey decided he must have used an earlier-hence more reliable-Hebrew source than the others. Markus Barth, son of the late Karl Barth, advances an even more unorthodox theory in his classes at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary: that the Gospel of John came first. Barth sees John's Gospel as a kind of guide for a pilgrimage in Jesus' footsteps to Jerusalem, and insists that...
...Markus died in 1965, and the parent holding company is now run by a triumvirate of Beyer, Chairman Joe D. Bain and Vice-Chairman Burton Borman. "We are beyond working for a living," says Beyer. "We would like to build a billion-dollar company. It has become an extension of our egos, because pur egos soar, and we want to keep building and getting accolades. We also enjoy money." Apparently these father images also enjoy the responsibility of looking after an ever-larger family of salesmen...