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...dwelling '60s life-style once made him America's most prominent disturbed person, was leery and unwilling. But during a second visit with Manson, Leifer managed to allay Manson's fears. In the competitive world of photojournalism, Leifer has always played to a tough audience, including Abraham Leifer, his father, who built the first darkroom that his son used, and who died last week at the age of 70. But on a trip to Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York, Leifer met someone who had been evaluating his work almost as intensely as his father: Richard...
...ciphers and symbols that fall as thick and fast as the hailstones of God's wrath. What is one to make, for example, of Cohn's companion on his frail ark: a talking chimpanzee named Buz, after "one of the descendants of Nahor, the brother of Abraham the Patriarch." Granted that Cohn, a former rabbinical student, is given to excesses in biblical name giving, his choice of Buz is scarcely apposite; the chimp is a Christian convert who crosses himself when Cohn reads to him from the Book of Genesis...
...unique female, a chimp who quotes from Romeo and Juliet with a lisp ("What wov can do, that dares wov attempt"). The fact that only Cohn and Mary Madelyn have sex, producing a baby, causes the beasts to go amuck. In a lunatic re-enactment of both Abraham's intended sacrifice of Isaac and of the Crucifixion, Cohn is killed by the apes. In a final tableau, the gorilla dons a yarmulke and "in his throaty, gruff voice" recites the Kaddish...
Bush has not changed his views of history because of his vantage point inside the White House. But some ideas have been enlarged. The Vice President has noticed a greater depth of feeling about Abraham Lincoln than he had sensed before. Seated beside a woman from India at a recent dinner in the White House, Bush was startled when she talked about "the beauty" in the painting of Lincoln over the mantle and how Lincoln looked different in that picture at that moment than she had imagined all her life...
Robert Bates, Manning is the professional descendant of David Homer Bates, whose operators scribbled out Civil War battle reports from Morse code rattling Abraham over the telegraph lines. Bates often handed the war news to Abraham Lincoln on his melancholy evening visits to the office next to the White House...