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Marvelous as they are, Swift's multiple voices do not sell themselves. Swift does that, as when he auditioned for the role of a pencil. The advertising man whose job it was to select the voice of the pencil had two ulcers flaring with Angst. Do or die, the ad man was determined to come up with the best pencil that ever gave a speech. He had already heard 50 human applicants, but none sounded like a pencil. "Can you do a pencil?" he said desperately as Swift-entered the room...
...artist. There was a startling psychological study of Lenin, done in 1921, which captures his aggressive intelligence. From Pasternak's later period in Berlin there was a sketch of a dark-haired, mustachioed Albert Einstein playing the violin. Most of the 82 charcoal, pastel, chalk and red pencil drawings in the show demonstrated Pasternak's talent for capturing a fleeting moment of gentleness and humanity-a talent that made many an aging visitor stop, catch his breath and murmur: "Ah, that is the way I knew him too." Nosed Out by a Girl. The show in Munich...
...unemployed, the underfed, the suddenly bereaved; often she found inspiration in Berlin's city morgue-by sketching accident or murder victims. Whether in the morgue, on a slum sidewalk, or in her big, incredibly cluttered studio in the Prussian Academy of Arts, the rhythm of her crayon or pencil varied with the mood, now feverish with shock, now heavy with despair. She was capable of depicting love in a tender drawing of a mother and a child; but in another drawing, the child might be dead and the love would turn from tenderness to shattering grief. Death...
...evening in 1948 Sack returned to a gin rummy game he had just left to retrieve a forgotten gold pencil. At the table, he fell into conversation with another player, ended up lending him $10,000 to renovate a movie house in Lowell, Mass. The loan eventually expanded into a $200,000 investment in three theaters. When his partner decided to sell out, Sack suddenly found himself in the theater business. "What did I know about theaters?" he asks. "About as much as John Dillinger knew about being Pope...
...thirds of the ballots were opposed to all-number dialing. Said Hayakawa: "These people are systematically trying to destroy the use of memory. They tell you to 'write it down,' not memorize it. Try writing a telephone number down in a dark booth while groping for a pencil, searching in an obsolete phone book and gasping for breath. And all this in the name of efficiency ! Engineers have a terrible intellectual weakness. 'If it fits the machine,' they say, 'then it ought to fit people.' This is something that bothers me very much: absentmindedness...