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...though amused by his new milieu, he was unshakably radicalized before he got there. Born and raised in the U.S., he finished high school in Manhattan, then drifted to Chicago. He married at 19 (three children, divorced) and worked for nine years as a low-paid assistant to Sociologist Saul Alinsky, organizing community action groups in poor neighborhoods. "In a sense, Saul brought me up," he says, "and I finally had to leave home." Starting at the Chicago Daily News, he earned a reputation as a first-class, if distressingly partisan reporter. Out of two assignments, the universities...
...Herzog, Saul Bellow, 1964 10. The First Circle, Alexander Solzhenitsyn...
Discovered Figure. The resulting show, called "Blocked Metaphors," is a testament to the artists' variety and ingenuity. Saul Steinberg, for instance, discovered that his own block had been made to come apart so that a finished hat could be removed without tearing. He was so taken with the beauty of the original that he decided merely to rearrange the parts. "The figure emerged spontaneously," he says, and it reminded him of Renaissance portraits of Italian patricians. In his antic fashion, Steinberg named his creation Il Duca di Mantova, after the playboy nobleman in Rigoletto. Bernard Pfriem, a New York...
...Testament Miniatures. Introduction by Sydney C. Cockerel!; Preface by John Plummer. 209 paqes. Braziller. $50. Stunning facsimile reproductions of medieval miniatures that illustrate the Creation, as well as the subsequent doings of Adam, Eve, the serpent, Noah, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Samuel, Saul, David and Goliath, with as much lively detail as a supercomic strip and as much eloquent beauty as most Adorations of the Virgin. The book of the year at practically any price...
...Saul Steinberg is a 30-year-old wonder who founded Leasco, a pioneer computer-leasing company, two years after graduating from the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce in 1959. Since then, by extending his successful leasing activities into other areas and adding insurance and data-processing operations, he has built the company into a business with assets of $400 million. When Steinberg, a tall and portly man, announced last summer that he intended to make a $60 million bid for the London scientific publishing house of Pergamon Press Ltd., Britons viewed him as a brash Yankee millionaire...