Word: angel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Similar misfortune has befallen The Angel Levine, Bernard Malamud's pithy and whimsical parable of an elderly Jewish tailor and his war with God. In the film Zero Mostel portrays Mishkin, a decrepit, latter-day Job on whom God has visited terrible plagues. His Manhattan shop has burned to the ground while insufficiently insured. His wife Fanny (Ida Kaminska) is on her death bed and driving him meshugge (crazy) with petty demands. His back is killing him and-ah, cruel Jehovah!-his only daughter has married an Italian. His faith is moribund, and to revive it an unlikely angel...
AUTHENTIC camp is a rare thing, but the script of You Can't Take It With You crawls with it. Darkie cook Rheba says to shuffle-foot Donald. "Yassuh, I'm glad I'm colored": angel-daughter Alice cries exasperatedly. "Why can't we be like other people? Roast Beef, and two green vegetables, and doilies on the table..."; Kolenkhov, the emigre ballet master, deadpans. "She is a great woman, the Grand Duchess. Her cousin was the Czar of Russia, and today she is waitress in Child's Restaurant. Columbus Circle." Unadulterated camp is screamingly funny just because...
...into literary boxes, however labeled. He strove to maintain a free and, in the old-fashioned sense of the word. d;sinterest-ed view. More than any other novelist, he is proof that to become a significant writer, a man must be neither an idea machine nor a recording angel, but a human voice sounding with its own shifting intonations in the ear and heart of the reader. Describing the peculiar discrepancy between apparent message and feeling in Forster's novels, Lionel Trilling observed: " 'Wash ye, make yourselves clean,' says the plot, and the manner murmurs...
...Perry. of Brewton, Ala., and Dunster House (History): Woody N. Peterson of Canton, O., and Leverett House (English): Henry C. Pinkham, of Bordeaux, France and Lowell House (Mathematics): John A, Pinto, of Rome, Italy and Adams House (Fine Arts): Alan M. Polinsky, of Clayton, Mo., and Lowell House (Economies): Angel M. Rabasa of Miami, Fla., and Dunster House (History): John C. Reitz, of Ann Arbor. Mich., and Lowell House (German Literature): David Riemer, of Milwaukee, Wise., and Winthrop House (History and Literature); Stephen K. Roddenbury, of Jocksonville. Fla., and Eliot House (History of Science); Jay S. Rosen, of Brooklyn...
...unpaid hotel bills. Suddenly a dragon of a hotel inspector is breathing fire down everyone's neck. Fortuitously, a backer appears. At one of many crucial and hilarious moments, Miller, with no ink in his pen, frantically tries to pierce his wrist and draw blood so that the angel can sign the contract. From then on, Miller merely sweats blood through one farcical contretemps after another until his production finally becomes a smash...