Word: arrick
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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Universal Malady. The three short stories involved here, Defender of the Faith, Epstein and Eli, the Fanatic, have been faithfully adapted by Larry Arrick from the original late '50s texts. Indeed, he might have been better advised to put the evening together as a reading, since the interpolated narrative quotations from the stories create the impression that one has wandered into a library rather than a theater...
Unitarian Solution. The last story, Eli, the Fanatic, borders on mysticism. Its chief characters are a lawyer in a Brooks Brothers suit (Michael Tolan), his very pregnant wife (Rose Arrick), a Talmudic scholar (Lou Jacob!) and the scholar's helper (David Ackroyd). The assistant is a bearded D.P. who survived a concentration camp with only the ghetto garb of a black suit, small prayer shawl and broad-brimmed...
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