Word: steins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...both Kennedy and McGovern on the left. The former Minnesota Senator met recently for a strategy session with two groups of potential financial backers in New York, and some participants were certain that the unpredictable politician is going to compete in the Democratic primaries again. At the meetings Howard Stein, chairman of the Dreyfus Corporation and an angel for his 1968 run, and others indicated that if McCarthy does run, the money will be there...
...name is Adam Stein, and he is a kind of W.C. Fields of the Jews. Once he was Europe's greatest clown, and more than that, a clairvoyant who could tell the history of anybody in the audience from a piece of cloth held in his hand, read whole books through their covers, and even, just by looking into a man's eyes, tell that he had quarreled with his wife the night before. Chatting about a movie, he would automatically register that the hero spoke 4,266 words of dialogue (v. the heroine...
...much for temporal hell remembered. Stein's present haven is an institute established by an eccentric Cleveland widow persuaded that God was conceived in the desert by prophets who were themselves psychotics. As a fanatic inmate explains: "We were a nation, a nation that betrayed its God. And we paid the highest price possible -we became smoke and ashes." And all those who returned are, in Kaniuk's idiosyncratically mordant view, insane. During the day they live well. They are allowed to work, make money, build houses, enjoy the illusion of progress. But at night they have nightmares...
...CARYL STEIN Pittsburgh
...arrives in the form of his English accountant, Harry Stein, a spiteful little sex deviant and sometime blackmailer who cannot forgive his clients the indulgence that is reflected in the expense accounts he sweats over. Jake accepts Harry's envy as a judgment. When his entanglement with Harry lands him in the dock at the Old Bailey-wrongly accused of bizarre sexual offenses against a German au pair girl-he acquiesces in society's right to demand an accounting from him. To him, the trial is the rack on which his way of life is stretched...