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Vonnegut's principal characters are Dr. Wilbur Swain and Eliza Swain, a brother and sister who seem to owe some of their identities to Vladimir Nabokov's Van and Ada of Ada. The aged doctor camps out in the lobby remnant of the Empire State Building and relates the disjointed fantasy of his life and times...
...choice of a Vice President as an emotional issue in the minds of delegates. But his urgent need was to press on in hard pursuit of delegates who are becoming more elusive as they weary of all the conflicting pressures. As one pro-Reagan delegate, Delaware's William Swain Lee, explained his fed-up feelings, "After what I've been through, I'd stay with Reagan even if the heavens opened up and a voice from the sky told me I was wrong." Plainly, many of the Ford delegates were digging in too as the Kansas City...
When Jason Scott Cord, a third-year joint law and business student, went for an interview last fall with the prestigious New York firm of Cravath, Swain and Moore, he told one lie too many. Cord told the interviewer he was a big-time college placekicker, and the interviewer, who knew his football, got suspicious and contacted the University, and the greatest hoax in Harvard's history began to unfold...
Around that time, or perhaps a little before, Spiro had an interview with the prestigious New York firm of Cravath, Swain and Moore. According to a friend, Pavlovich realized the firm's interviewers were suspicious--his claim to being a college placekicker didn't sit well with one of the interviewers who knew his football. Once again, it was the law firm, not the colleges, which did him in; once more boasts of athletic prowess contributed to his downfall...
...draft. The plot, however, concerns deadly primal emotions: love, jealousy and ambition. Jenufa is pregnant by števa, a wastrel who chases every girl in town. Jenufa still hopes to catch him, but her world is invisibly rimmed by two figures far more powerful than she and her faithless swain. One is a poor man named Laca, who loves her with a ferocity that drives him to ruin her beauty-all that števa ever noticed about her-by slashing her cheek with a knife. The other adoring menace is her foster mother Kostelniča, the church sextoness...