Word: nathan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...despite his fast-growing fortune, Lubin realized that he was still financially vulnerable. ''If anything happened to me, my whole estate was my business," he recalls. So he merged Sara Lee into Consolidated Foods, the food-processing, wholesaling, and retailing Goliath being assembled by Canadian-born Entrepreneur Nathan Cummings, 65. Cummings paid Lubin 170,000 shares of Consolidated stock-then worth nearly $3,000,000-and was shrewd enough to let the master baker continue to run his own shop...
...occasional sadistic delight. One of the functionaries is Plantagenet himself, who has programmed (in his own image) a self-operating machine which is called fate and which actually runs the earth. The "tertiary spiritual leader" nominally responsible for the earth, the official locally designated "God," appears here as Nathan Weltschmertz, an amiable, blundering fellow whose ambition to realize a personal utopia the machine continually frustrates...
...assists two lost souls to break through the barrier of earth into the void. The souls, Hector and Gnatalia (in a vague way Adam and Eve figures), pollute the atmosphere of the void; so much so that Rex Regis, a vice-President, must call upon Plantagenet to psychoanalyze Nathan, and persuade Him that He can in fact control His planet in His own way. And that the Doctor does, with what an earlier school of reviewing would call many riotous consequences...
...their own terms, one must be certain of exactly what these laws are. Here lies Wolfson's most irritating weakness, for he leaves his audience wondering about an enormous number of embarrassing technical matters. Why, after all, should lost souls produce a kind of "spiritual fallout"? Why should Nathan's metaphysics be so simple-minded that He cannot grasp the mechanics of good and evil on His earth? A lack of precision, a lack simply of detail, reduces much of Dr. Plantagenet to situation comedy in a wild setting. Its fascination is undeniable, but it derives far more from...
Many victims of mental illness need never be sent to public hospitals, and many more could be helped toward a speedier, fuller recovery, if psychiatry took maximum advantage and made energetic use of drugs and knowledge already available. So said Dr. Nathan S. Kline last week at a meeting in Detroit of the American Public Health Association. The gains of the last five years are being largely ignored, he said...