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Through Laster's mammoth spiel, we learn about both Schneidermann's and his own past, about how despite Schneidermann's experience in the Shoah he considered himself one of the last Old World Europeans, about Jewish history, about music ...

Experimental Fiction 2010

Cohen is skillful indeed in deploying this language, and if readers are able to accustom themselves to Laster's strung-out, stop/start way of summoning up those events that have culminated in this night at Carnegie Hall, they will surely find themselves enjoying the jokes, the deliberate or not-so-deliberate malapropisms, the puns, the occasional passages of real eloquence.

Experimental Fiction 2010

Many of the anecdotes Laster relates are compelling, some hillarious; over the long run, Laster's voice, and thus Laster himself, is vividly rendered, leading us through what becomes an hours-long exhortation, even if what we finally remember is probably less Schniedermann (who remains, perhaps unavoidably so, somewhat distanced and enigmatic) than Laster's own desperate attempt to make us remember him.

Experimental Fiction 2010

The novel implicitly asks that we take the reading of a novel to be a unique experience, not just another rote variation on an a pre-established theme, just as Laster's "cadenza" is unlike any previously heard.

Experimental Fiction 2010

Schneidermann, as it turns out, is a Holocaust survivor and, in Laster's view, an unjustly neglected composer, the "iconoclast even the iconoclasts worshipped," while he, Laster, has lived a relatively privileged life as a soloist:

Experimental Fiction 2010

In other words, the conventional elements of fiction are in play in this novel (substituting for the real playing of the concerto, as it were), but they are rhetorically shuffled in Laster's discontinuous streams of speech.

Experimental Fiction 2010

Stuart Grant, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, said in a statement: The $89.4 million payment to shareholders, when added to the major changes that have occurred in the investment banking community in response to Vice Chancellor Laster's injunction obtained earlier in the case, makes this a great result for stockholders, not only those holding shares in Del Monte, but all public equity holders of companies involved in M.

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In a career that lasted more than 40 years, Laster's authors also included Ralph Ellison, Robert Penn Warren and Susan Isaacs.

The Seattle Times 2011

According to Laster's opinion, Steinhardt began short selling Calix common stock on December 28, 2010 and sold short 589,097 Calix shares through the closing of the merger in February 2011, which was approved by shareholders representing 64% of the company's shares.

Forbes.com: News Nathan Vardi 2012

Laster's ruling has dissuaded Barclays and other investment banks from offering so-called sell-side financing for public buyouts, he said.

BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011