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Biblical Stock Market. A one-day, Soviet-style marriage with a grim giantess (who loved him only for his living space) causes Lasik's political doom, and he is finally forced to take it on the lam westward, one jump ahead of the secret police. The rest of Lasik's nonstop global pratfall is something of an anticlimax-but not to Lasik himself. In Germany he is delighted to find that "everyone around him spoke Yiddish, though in a slightly imperfect way." In his lunatic vision, the Weimar Republic becomes a memorable cartoon-rather as if George Grosz...
...voice of the era-which is a good measure of the era." It may well be. Bright and nervous, frenetic, full of quick smiles and dark moods, shouting "Onward, onward" between laughs, performing in a cashmere sweater, always tieless, he manages to suggest barbecue pits on the brink of doom...
...only to the book's heroine, Julie, the suicide's younger sister, a girl of indomitable goodness of heart and boundless puerility. Ben, of course, is on a presidential mission of civilization-shattering importance, but Julie still thinks he is the cad who drove her sister to doom, so she will not help. Or will she? The reader can only wish that F.D.R...
...corners at the broadcasting booth, head cocked into a single earphone, Murrow gave the impression that he was listening more to the rulings of the Supreme Chairman than to the conversation of his fluent, competent colleague, Walter Cronkite. Murrow is still television's big news name; but his doom-edged, oracular school of reporting-better suited to war and disaster than to the gaudier side of U.S. politics-was rendered obsolete by the fresh wind from...
...that in many cases, even if a company succeeds in bringing a new product to market, it may not have the facilities to sell it, or a market big enough to make money. The big talk in the electronics industry is of the coming "shake-out" that will spell doom for many of the 5,000 firms now in the industry. Even in the glamorous transistor field, only the strongest and most inventive companies can hope to prosper in the increasingly tough competition...