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Miss Oates' vehicle for this heavy freight is Dr Jesse Vogel, a character who passes through a succession of other characters like a phantom walking through walls. Jesse Vogel resembles Jules in them. He possesses a sense of personal destiny that has been developed by trauma, unusual circumstance and a mysterious, glacial will power...
...Vogel begins as Jesse Harte, the sole survivor of one of those Christmas family massacres in which the unemployed father shoots his wife and children and then takes his own life. He is adopted by Dr and Mrs. Pedersen of Lockport, N.Y., and assumes their name. The doctor is a Hegelian on wheels who, in his zeal for personal accomplishment, conducts dinnertime inquisitions, getting progress reports and dishing out praise and censure to his family...
...Government. Younger experts wryly refer to him as "King John." Starting as an expert on 19th century China, Fairbank has long argued for serious, sustained attention to the mainland. Historian Benjamin Schwartz's interests range widely, from Confucian thought to the rise of Mao; Ezra Vogel is a pioneer in the growing field of China sociology. Jerome Cohen was one of the first Westerners to become knowledgeable about Chinese law. Historian James Thomson Jr., a Kennedy and Johnson Administration adviser, is already a leader in the imminently expanding area of Chinese-American relations...
...indefinable way I am not quite serious. And that's because I have a job." The job is as editorial director of Conde Nast; he has been there in one position or another since 1941, when he escaped from Paris to New York and was hired by Lucien Vogel, on whose illustrated magazine Vu he had worked in the '30s. Some Liberman critics claim that his art exists mainly on a level of Parnassian chic, that he is "uncommitted," a designer of objects rather than a maker of acts and images. Indeed, Liberman is the antitype...
There are rumors that a swap may in fact be in the works. Wolfgang Vogel. the East Berlin lawyer who was instrumental in the exchange of U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers for Soviet Master Spy Rudolf Abel, is active in the case. So is Manhattan Lawyer Maxwell Rabb, secretary to the Cabinet during the Eisenhower Administration who has negotiated the release of seven Americans from East Germany since 1965. If the Soviets are determined to bring about a better climate in Berlin, Moscow may try to pressure the East Germans to free the students. But there is also...