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...long-absent daughter, Yahina (another Ma in the making), her husband, Feivet, a deaf mute, and her son, Pildesh, who while urinating from a fourth floor window, tumbles out. The savior of this twisted family is old, orange-eyed. Vossen Gleich, with his lopsided chest ("one side sunk in, the other humped and swollen to his chin"), who ends his virginity with poor, sickly Mrs. Charpolsky--from downstairs...
Sink or Swim. Home has considered the issue more carefully than he is often given credit for, is on record with a remarkable statement of Britain's domestic challenges. "For the trade unions," he has said, "the choice is whether to remain sunk in the stick-in-the-mud attitudes of the twenties and thirties, a prey to Depression fixations, meeting today's prosperity with yesterday's attitudes of mind, or whether to operate an up-to-date organization in modern conditions of affluence, where the object would be to produce as much wealth as possible...
...reply for 24 hours, then roared back that Baath had ruined "the dearest aspiration of the Arabs, stabbing the union and tearing the charter into pieces." The Egyptians reserved their choicest words for the Baath lead ers in Damascus, who, Nasser's Arab Socialist Union said, had "sunk Syria in a sea of blood." Cairo even taunted the Syrians with a ditty. A singer asks, "Where are the free?" and a chorus answers, "They entered Mezza" (a Damascus prison). The singer then asks, "Where are the revolutionaries?" and the chorus comes back, "In Mezza...
...attacking the Kennedy "myth," Lasky writes that J.F.K.'s "military experience included having the PT boat of which he was the skipper rammed and sunk by a much slower Japanese destroyer." A Pulitzer Prize author? "Kennedy had considerable help." Even Kennedy's use of naval power to pressure Khrushchev to withdraw his missiles from Cuba was, to Lasky, merely a ploy for domestic political advantage, since "among other things, Kennedy was able to accomplish the political destruction of his former rival, Richard M. Nixon, in California...
...book Fail-Safe excited fears about accidental war, Buchwald worried about accidental peace. He imagined a scene that would have spelled the end of the cold war: "Five Russian divisions are demobilized, an atomic testing station in the Urals is destroyed, and 40 new Soviet Submarines are flooded and sunk. The Americans pick up this information, and they immediately sink 14 of their own missile cruisers, slash the tires on every SAC bomber. . . The President closes down the Pentagon, furloughs the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and fires the U.S. Marine Corps Band. Both sides are eyeball to eyeball, headed hellbent...