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...fact, in this series Soutine so abandoned his carefully acquired art-school disciplines that he apparently frightened even himself; in later years, he renounced his Ceret paintings, referring to them as having been "painted with my fingers." As Los Angeles Curator Maurice Tuchman tells it: "Soutine would install his mistress in a cafe, go in search of a Ceret picture he had heard some dealer owned, exchange a new picture for an old one, and ritually, happily destroy...
...King's Mistress. Corporations, insists Jay, are today's equivalent of pre-19th century states even down to geographic control of territories (Du Pont over Wilmington and Boeing over Seattle, for instance) and their near-absolute grip on the careers and movements of their subjects (employees). Thus today's corporate rulers should learn from their princely predecessors They should depend less on staff men (courtiers) and more on regional managers (barons), but at the same time not let the company become so decentralized that the barons will battle one another for the power that rightfully belongs...
...sinking the same way in the 1950s says Jay, until Donald Kircher moved in as president and began reviving it. Jay can find a historical analogy for almost everything about the modern corporation. "The boss's secretary," he observes, "can wield great power, like the king's mistress, without any authority at all or at least not the sort you can show anybody...
...Babel, a spy novel about Middle East tensions in the period just before the Six-Day War; it has no faults except that it is neither tense nor in any way Middle Eastern. The wily Lebanese banker, the fanatic Syrian colonel, the Israeli undercover agent and his trusty Damascan mistress all speak as if their lines had been written for them by-to pick an absurd example-a plonking Australian novelist named Morris West, author of The Shoes of the Fisherman. This is Eric Ambler territory, and no Western writer less accustomed to its rigors should...
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