Word: tessler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Works of Schumann, Saint-Saens, Amold, Bach, Milan, and Tarrega--Catherine Lawlor, piano; Barbara Knapp, oboe; Christine Tessler, piano' and Brian Holland, guitar; New School of Music, 60 Aberdeen Ave., Cambridge...
...fresh, polyester-crisp image that men and women, particularly men, have cultivated for so long. Yet in a way the rumpled, crumpled look is a logical extension of the recent trend toward self-liberation in fashion. "People today are willing to be comfortable, both physically and socially," says David Tessler, owner of San Francisco's City Island Dry Goods Co. boutique. "They have no use for constraints or formality." Fashion Savant Geraldine Stutz, president of Manhattan's Henri Bendel, declares not only that "the wrinkle is the apogee of casual dressing" but also that it is "the ultimate...
...Company, and all the famous names have been changed to protect the guilty. Even so, it is not hard to identify such major characters as President Richard Monckton (Jason Robards), ex-President Esker Scott Anderson (Andy Griffith), CIA Chief William Martin (Cliff Robertson) or National Security Council Head Carl Tessler (Harold Gould). Lesser Watergate lights-from Hugh Sloan to Howard Hunt-should be recognizable to anyone who has seen All the President...
...Curry, to ruin a U.S.-supported invasion of a South American country in which several hundred "patriots" died. Martin had earlier predicted that millionaire Governor Thomas Forville would win the Republican nomination and eventually the election; so he courted the governor's international advisor--Austrian-born, Harvard professor Carl Tessler. Martin leaked secret information to Tessler, who used it for his "brilliant" books. Fortunately for Martin, Tessler is wooed over to candidate Monckton's staff, so Martin's job is safeguarded. Unfortunately for Martin, after the election, his new boss, President Monckton, wants...
...this leader of the free world, as he writes, often emerge from the lavatory to greet foreign dignitaries with a slightly damp hand shake? Nixon, like Monckton, scorned hat and gloves. Was it really to preserve a macho image or to copy John F. Kennedy? And what of Carl Tessler, guttural-voiced escapee from Vienna and Harvard who serves as Monckton's foreign policy expert and chief of the National Security Council? As NSC chief, Kissinger had an influence over the President that Ehrlichman resented. In The Company Tessler is described as an egotistical coward whose mouth was "small...