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Fellow Bundestag Deputies thought of Socialist Alfred Frenzel, 61, as a dull fellow but a beaver for work. His diligent legislative spadework on any topic assigned him earned him a prized seat on the defense committee. There one of his proudest accomplishments was pushing through the adoption of a new vitamin-enriched bread for the West German army. Said a colleague: "No report was too tedious for him, no inspection trip too long...
...British people back on the stage, and the British people, of every variety, are filling the audience too. Long black Bentleys and Rolls-Royces of the Establishment quietly rubber into Stratford East every evening. But it is Joan Littlewood's proudest claim that two-thirds of the Workshop's audience come from within five miles of the playhouse...
...slave world on the same footing," complained Connecticut's Thomas Dodd. Thundered Georgia's Richard Russell, recalling the exploits of the late Explorer Byrd (brother of Virginia's Senator Harry F. Byrd): "This treaty would certainly be a dismal conclusion to one of the brightest and proudest chapters of American history...
Deliberate Confusion. Parody shows its proudest paces when matched with the trend-setting writers. Thomas Wolfe's uncapped autobiographical gushes ("I, or me, the youth eternal, many-visaged and many-volumed") are shown in all their wonderful but wobbly workings by Clifton Fadiman, whose irresistible caricature should make any further sheep think twice before they don Wolfe's clothing...
Reynolds' Gray is proudest of a much-abused, often misused concept known as teamwork. He freely delegates authority ("Confidence is important"), but makes certain that everyone knows precisely what is expected of him. He runs the company through seven top committees, headed by directors responsible for every function from buying tobacco leaf to setting up drugstore displays. Unhappy about the way one department was running, Gray last year walked up to its head, said softly that something had to be done, concluded: "I'll see you in six months." Exactly six months later, Gray checked up. The matter had been...