Word: mc
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Mosaic's fiction this time is pretty weak. "Adoshem," a short story by Leonard Tushnet, could have been very funny; part whimsy, part science fiction, it is the story of a Kabalist Rabbi in Brooklyn who, searching for God's name, plays around with the magic number e=mc squared until he is struck by lightning. It isn't funny, because Tushnet patronizes the old Rabbi he has created and has a sentimental realist's way of describing things in too much detail. Better written is Daniel Eigerman's "Cirrhosis to Benefit by Gala," another short story; this...
...Capitol Hill. But under the Kennedy Administration, other New Frontiersmen have come to dabble deeply In Latin American affairs. They include U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, currently on a good-will tour in Latin America; Kennedy Aides Richard Goodwin, architect of the Alliance for Progress program, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., and Mc-George Bundy; and Adolf Berle, chief of a "Latin America task force." And to add to Woodward's future problems, New Orleans' Mayor deLesseps Morrison, accepting a post as Ambassador to the Organization of American States, last week blandly let it be known that he considers...
...airplane that hits this invisible turbulence would be slammed upward and downward as if it had flown through a miniature thunderstorm. A light airplane flying through the core itself, says Mc-Gowan, "can experience loading conditions that exceed the design ultimate load factors," i.e., can be torn apart. Although no supersonic airliners are flying yet, McGowan looks forward to their take-off with some trepidation. Their wake will be strong enough to knock the wings off a good-sized commercial airliner...
...auto business in Tientsin. Interned after Pearl Harbor, he was repatriated in an exchange of U.S. and Japanese internees in 1943. But at war's end. he hurried back to his business in Tien tsin. His wife Flora remained behind in California with their three children. Mc Cann prospered even through the Chinese civil war. And when the Communists took Tientsin in 1949, McCann again elected to linger on. Confidently he told friends that his business know-how and his line of cars and tractors made him indispensable. But in 1951 he was arrested, "tried" by the Tientsin High...
...will never stoop to suffer from the "poultricidal tendencies" of MacDonald. She is nearer, but not completely in, the no man's land?and Everywoman's country?of such writers as Anita Loos (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), Cornelia Otis Skinner (Nuts in May), Sally Benson (Junior Miss) and Phyllis Mc-Ginley, a Larchmont neighbor and close friend, whose light verse parallels, to some extent, the everyday materials of Jean Kerr's prose.-But Phyllis McGinley is a deeper, more sentient writer to whom humor is seldom an end in itself...