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Roger Micheldene is a plump package of just about everything Americans find detestable in a U-type Englishman. He is expensively accented (Oxford), twice married, with a modest homosexual past, a nonchurchgoing Roman Catholic, but a devout snob and a glutton, a sexman and a Potterish ployman of epic pretensions. His exploits in one-upmanship take the form of a baroque conversational style, impeccable scholarship in cigars, and a collection of snuffboxes with appropriate snuff (antelope horn for the Otterburn mix). He hates progress, Protestants, Negroes, Jews, Americans, today and tomorrow. Such a man, Amis implies, has done very nicely...
Thanks to his Princeton contacts, Forrestal landed a job as a salesman with the New York investment banking firm of Dillon, Read. Intense, hard-driving and a glutton for work, he became head of the sales force in three years, eventually company president. On the way up, he engineered deals that were the talk of Wall Street. But one of them furnished his enemies with ammunition to use against him in later years. Forrestal set up a bogus Canadian corporation in order to avoid paying some $100,000 in taxes-not an illegal act, writes Rogow, but not a very...
Stand Back. "You don't work in Newton unless you're a glutton for punishment," says one former teacher, who wishes he had never left. To find such gluttons (top pay: $11,600), Superintendent Brown raids not only schools across the U.S. but also universities. He takes only the best: "The people who hire teachers have to have the courage to turn down those who are not fit." As a result, Newton is brimful of truly concerned teachers. "My most important task," says Brown, "is to find good people, make sure they know their responsibilities, and then...
...glutton and compulsive sucker on caramels, Peredonov is the anti-hero of Fyodor Sologub's classic. The Petty Demon, a glittering fantasy that had enormous success in Russia when it came out in 1907 but has not been widely read elsewhere. (This deft translation is the first time it has been reissued in the U.S. since 1916.) A poor schoolteacher in an ugly 19th century provincial town, Peredonov hopes to be appointed inspector of schools through the intercession of his vulgar mistress Varvara with a powerful princess...
...warlock and misleads both women from couch to bed; Palmer's sister, Dr. Honor Klein, a notable witch and anthropologist given to fingering a samurai sword while talking of herself as a severed head (see Freud on Medusa, a character hopefully prompts the reader). Lynch-Gibbon, a glutton for grief, is, of course, transfixed by this menacing Gorgon. By what black psychological thimbleriggery their union is achieved-despite innumerable obstacles of which incest appears to be the least-is too intricate to be described. A mythological key is provided on the novel's last page...