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FANTASTIC STORIES (214 pp.)-Abram Tertz-Pantheon...
...large portrait of president Abram L. Sachar has been smeared with ink and obscenities have been scrawled on the Ullman Amphitheatre: the Brandeis faculty, meeting yesterday to discuss general questions of academic freedom proceeding from the resignations, was unable to decide on any definitive action and will meet again today...
Pariah & Servant. The richest of York's moneylenders was Baruch of Northstreet. He flaunted his wealth on his bejeweled fingers, had no qualms about cheating the Christians who kept him a social pariah. But Baruch's son Abram was his father's despair. A failed rabbi, Abram despised Baruch's vanity and usury, refused to learn the lending trade, struck up a friendship and a religious dialogue with a simple Catholic monk. To the consternation of his parents. Abram also gradually fell in love with Bett, their poor Christian servant girl...
Author Greenberg is placed in the ambivalent position of having written a bad novel and a good book. Her plot reads like a combination of Abram's Irish Rose and a study of that tedious 20th century malaise, Lack of Communication. But if her fiction is wanting, her historiography is not. With painstaking care, she has woven each of the skeins of medieval life into a vivid tapestry that shows the loutishness and insensitivity of the baronial landholders, the obtuseness of the peasantry, the twisted fervor of churchmen who found virtue in the wholesale slaughter of heretics...
David L. Aberle, former head of the Brandeis anthropology department and his wife, Kathleen Gough Aberle, assistant professor of anthropology, have resigned in the face of harsh criticism from Brandeis president Abram L. Sachar concerning a pro-Cuba speech made by Mrs. Aberle at the height of last October's Cuban crisis...