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...Alaska, Coming into the Country, and other books, not only is a gentleman but a gourmet and a cook; he is also a compulsive describer. He compromised. In the Feb. 19 New Yorker, McPhee devoted a 25,000-word profile to his favorite restaurant, its pseudonymous owner-chef "Otto" and his sommelière-pâtissière wife, Latvian-born "Anne who is not known as Anne...
...farmhouse-inn that is neither farm nor inn," McPhee wrote, he had downed 20 to 30 of the best meals he had consumed anywhere, including France's most illustrious restaurants. The article, as if written by Brillat-Savarin and annotated by Asimov, recounted in minute and salivating detail Otto's preparation of dozens of dishes from his repertory of 600: coulibiac, the Russian hot fish pie; osso bucco; paella à la marinara; veal cordon bleu; fillet of grouper oursinade (with sea urchin roe); smoked shad-roe pâté mousse; mussels à la poulette (with a veloute...
...even when layoffs hit. The Government has set up many federal mortgage lending institutions that will keep housing from falling through the floor. Besides, businessmen have cautiously avoided the excesses that in the past have led to precipitate tumbles. Inventories in warehouses and on store shelves are lean, although Otto Eckstein, head of Data Resources Inc., notes that the Iranian crisis and fear of an oil crunch have lately moved some businessmen to stock up in fear of more general shortages...
Board members pointed out that an amendment to balance the budget would straitjacket the economy, particularly during a recession, when deficit spending often is prudent to spur a recovery. Otto Eckstein noted that because tax revenues fall during a recession, Congress would have to raise taxes in order to balance the budget, and that would bury the economy even deeper...
...20th century Newton who set physics aflame and left an intellectual legacy so rich and profound that its depth is still a source of amazement and discovery. Yet Einstein, for his part, never lost sight of the humanity that new knowledge should serve. Says Einstein's executor, Economist Otto Nathan: "Even if he had never done science at all, he would have been one of the memorable figures of the century." That may be the exaggeration of a loyal friend. But as a centennial assessment, it is, relatively speaking, not entirely off the mark...