Word: shenker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...potential casino owner certain to be the subject of scrutiny is Morris Shenker, who put up $10 million to buy the President Motor Inn on the Boardwalk. Formerly one of Jimmy Hoffa's lawyers, he is part owner of the Dunes Hotel and casino in Las Vegas. Because of Shenker's links with a scandal-ridden Teamsters Union pension fund, he has been investigated off and on for more than 20 years by the Internal Revenue Service, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Justice Department and the Nevada gaming commission. Mob activity in Atlantic City...
Overall, the Post is better written with a pervading sense of self-deprecating irony. The Times, like a baseball manager who sends in a designated hitter, achieves its lighter effects with designated humorists: Israel Shenker, who merrily wanders the halls of academe, or Columnist Russell Baker, the best satirist in the American press. The Post's daily Style section takes itself less seriously than does the Times in its cultural coverage; but then in Washington there is less to take seriously, even if you add in the Kennedy Center and the Hirshhorn Museum. The Style section's reportorial...
...such as Premier Carlos Arias Navarro, will probably make conciliatory reforms such as granting labor unions autonomy and making strikes legal, but Arias and others will continue to attempt to ban some political parties, particularly those left of center. And Juan Carlos, characterized by his friends, according to Israel Shenker of the New York Times, as "a simple melancholy character with little character and less color, lacking in wit and drive," brings no hope for democracy in Spain...
...HIGH SPOTS of the book are the interviews. Shenker's interviewing technique is to keep his presence to a minimum, leaving description at the barest essentials and letting his subjects speak for themselves. Many of the conversations are really just strings of quotations, supplemented only by some remarkably vivid photographs by Jill Krementz. This approach usually proves successful, thanks to the caliber of the interviewees; unlike Rex Reed, Shenker doesn't have to resort to bitchy observations to spice up vapid quotes. Inevitably, some of the conversations are not all that fascinating, and at least one--a piece on Noam...
...move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains." Words and Their Masters isn't likely to budge the Himalayas, but it does provide some insight into the major literary minds of the day. Besides, it doesn't take itself too seriously, and it's a pleasure to read. Shenker has proved himself a minor master of words in his own right...