Word: caine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...subject, sums up van Itallie's crude intent. The surgeon who coldly recites the method for penetrating a skull suggests the author's indirect way of probing minds. One tries to learn something about individuals after they have died, the other claims that Adam and Eve, Abel and Cain, prototypes who have never lived, can teach us something about ourselves...
...extraordinary 45-minute television feature a month after Anneliese's death, Father Renz claimed that the six evil spirits attacking her included Lucifer, Nero, Judas, Cain and Adolf Hitler -who used to shout "Heil!" through Anneliese's voice. Renz even played one of the 43 tapes made during the exorcisms so that listeners could hear Anneliese growling obscenities, screaming guttural curses and raving wildly. Only death finally released her. Said Renz: "The devil does not reside in a dead body...
Despite their differences, Philippe and Gilbert were identical twins. Said Police Captain Pierre Patruel: "They resembled each other so much that you would have to see them standing next to each other to pick out the slight differences between them." Some of the neighbors referred to them as Cain and Abel...
...next-door neighbor." Analyzing like a good modern, revering like a good Jew, Wiesel portrays in these essays the majestic figures of the Old Testament rather as if he were writing a memoir about beloved but salty grandfathers and great-uncles from the East Side. Certainly Moses and Cain and Abel and even Adam seem as pungently real to him as the Jews he knew as a child in Auschwitz and Buchenwald. In returning to the first Diaspora, the first murder, the first exile, Author Wiesel appears at last to have found a meaning, if not an excuse...
Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain...