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...Philip Schechter, 37, trouble began in earnest on the High Holy Days, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, last fall. He had been at Temple Shaaray Tefila on Manhattan's Upper East Side since May. Over the summer, with his beard already bushy, Schechter let his hair grow to shoulder length: hardly the image of the Reform rabbi. As the holidays approached, he asked himself what he could say in his sermon to many people he had never seen before-those who attend services only on the High Holy Days-and might not see again until the next year...
...quite. For behind his Brillo beard is not only a weak chin but a vague ethic. The killer beast refuses to let his mercenaries enjoy any of the village sports: rape, pillaging, torture. Instead, he insists on discipline and mollifies a local priest (Per Oscarsson), all because of the influence of a wandering intellectual (Omar Sharif). As for the atrocities of the period, they are conveyed in formal compositions that amount to decorations, not disasters. Plague-ridden corpses are artistically strewn on smooth fields; soldiers flash evil grins in cartoon style-one even ecstatically licks the blood off his knife...
...gold brocade, dropping a leather jacket on the floor beside him. He squints. His cold, blue eyes do battle with the yellow afternoon sun that streams through the foggy windows before him. He stretches, his tall, slim body, stretching in the warmth like a lithe, tense cat. His beard is cropped close, ash-blond, almost grey in the translucent light, and blends, quite unostentatiously, with his shaggily trimmed hair. His eyebrows-enormous tensile spans that arch across his brow-seem to be all that is holding him together, so much so that you forget for the moment that Sutherland struck...
...sitting cross-legged in his Berkeley hut with a bowl of tea cupped in his hands; another shows him when he's robed and sandaled, standing at the garden outside the hut. The caption under the picture is taken from Ginsberg's writing, dated September 9, 1955: "... a bearded interesting Berkeley cat name of Snyder, I met him yesterday (via Rextoyh suggestion) who is studying oriental and leaving in a few months on some privately put up funds to go be a Zen monk (a real one). He's a head, peyotlist, laconist, but warmhearted, nice looking with a little...
...contrast to the islands was unfair, but in three hours I had changed worlds, and I was forced to make comparisons. Were the Gucci shoes and the Lilly sportcoat as expressive as the proud fisherman's beard and straw hat? And the weaver and the crazy woman-was their squabble the same as a joust of honking between a Mercedes and a Bentley? No, emphatically, no. Not Palm Beach: this extravagance could not have the same depth as the simple, slow, island rituals. The islanders' foibles had communicated their self-knowledge. Here, I felt that the foilbes denied that knowledge...