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...Real Raid. Simon is a constant and shrewd reader of profit and loss statements. He looks for companies with broad stock ownership, shares undervalued in relation to book values, sluggish management and sickly earnings. If he finds a likely case, he may dispatch aides to probe the situation deeper, use his contacts in Wall Street to find out why things are not better than they are. Eventually Simon may make a visit to the company himself?he took eight trips to West Virginia in the course of buying into Wheeling Steel?but his trips are mainly for general impressions rather...
...because Author Connelly's untidy muse has not bothered to tie up every loose end. Characters muster on whim, and for the same reason dissolve like smoke; promising bends in the plot lead nowhere at all, like garden paths. This should bother no one but the literal-minded reader, who is seldom found in a chaise longue anyway...
Strictly speaking, only four of the eight articles deal with technical matters, and only two of these require any sort of scientific background on the part of the reader. The other two, "Memories, Molecules, and Minds," by James V. McConncll, professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan, and "Machines That Can Think," by Stephen F. Jencks '62, a second-year student at the Medical School and an undergraduate specialist in computer programming and information theory, are sufficient to suggest the advances looming on the horizon in their respective fields...
...last Matern is reunited with Amsel, who smiles at him in implacable friendship with his 32 gold teeth. The reader now becomes aware of increased and complicated cranking from the novel's symbolic machinery. Amsel, the suffering half-Jew, has grown rich by developing his childish scarecrows into elaborate mechanical puppets that are programmed to act out scenes of German guilt. They are much in demand among guilt-ridden Germans, and Amsel employs a large force of workers to build their elaborate machinery and package them in an abandoned potash mine. In a grotesque parody of that old literary...
...facts of yesterday are the errors of today. But who reads scholarly archaeological journals? Novelist James A. Michener, that's who. In this massive historical novel, Michener attempts to bring to new life the history of the long dead-and simultaneously to provide the interested but unscholarly reader with a course in Biblical history. He conscientiously talked with the leading diggers, visited the principal sites, swallowed the relevant literature whole. Unhappily, he has been unable to digest all his information. The Source, a laborious and interminable book that is the current Book of the Month Club choice...