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That essential feel for the trauma, the tragedy, the aloneness of the Jews in that dark period is simply missing from the Arabs' sense of history and from their grasp of the present...They cannot understand the fierce sensations of vulnerability, the lusty devotion to military strength, the stubborn resistance to international criticism, the waves of guilt that soften the core of the hardness. They cannot comprehend the gnawing fear of powerlessness that grinds beneath the arsenal of tanks and planes, the lurking conviction that it could happen again, and that again the world would look the other...
Nominally the story centers on the founder of the magazine (Kristoffer Tabori), an irritatingly stubborn but gifted scholar whose chief loyalty is to his own tastes and standards. His intensity of principle establishes him as a hero, although not, in Tabori's rendering, a very likable one. The most interesting performances come from Michael Countryman as a diffident rich boy who spends years under the hero's sway and Peter Friedman as an austere Scot who spends years resisting it. Countryman portrays the sort of unflashy youth who hangs around his brighter classmates but inevitably is relegated to the business...
...Blue's problems are as stubborn as they are unfamiliar to the company. From the personal computers at one end of its vast product line to the large mainframes that have been its backbone, the huge Armonk, N.Y.-based firm faces growing competition in the industry it used to call its own. Though IBM has sold more than 3 million personal computers since 1981, its share of that market has slipped substantially during the past year, from an estimated 35% of total sales to less than 29%, as consumers turned to other U.S.-made machines and cheap imports, or "clones...
...Herrmann's thesis is a stubborn one, and her subject must play Pagliacci to the end. Editors and women friends are brought on to recall a "contained," "testy, easily depressed man," "cranky to be considered this 'national treasure' and not sell." Herrmann adds that after the failure of his last play, The Beauty Part, in 1963, "(Perelman) began to lose the comic writer's most precious gift -- a sense of humor." This will come as a great surprise to readers who enjoyed Perelmania in five later collections of essays as well as a number of saline interviews and commentaries...
...full day was given over to workshops, serious affairs that dissected humor, a daunting job since humor tends to get stubborn in the face of pathology. Mark Wade, for example, who lectured on comedy writing for kid shows, gave his listeners the ABCs of a joke. "With C you pull the rug out from under them," he explained. He brought out a monkey dummy, who said, "My sister picks on me." That...