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What Malamud has actually produced is an astonishment: a fable of the last man so bizarre that it defies explication. At first it seems that in the person of Calvin Cohn, the author has in mind a latter-day Noah. Adrift in a boat Cohn is the only human survivor of the "Second Flood" that follows a nuclear war between the "Djanks" and "Druzhkies." Speaking from a crack in the sky, God addresses Cohn: "That you went on living, Mr. Cohn, I regret to say, was no more than a marginal error. . . Therefore live quickly-a few deep breaths...
...Cohn is no Noah. Indeed, readers would do well to give up any notion of decoding the ciphers and symbols that fall as thick and fast as the hailstones of God's wrath. What is one to make, for example, of Cohn's companion on his frail ark: a talking chimpanzee named Buz, after "one of the descendants of Nahor, the brother of Abraham the Patriarch." Granted that Cohn, a former rabbinical student, is given to excesses in biblical name giving, his choice of Buz is scarcely apposite; the chimp is a Christian convert who crosses himself when...
Denying that the board members are hostile" to anyone who appears at meetings, Cohn says. "I think that's simply a misunderstanding...
...member of the rent board has ever been removed" by a city manager, Sullivan says. "It's as if they were appointed for life Noting--that Cohn has served more than 10 years. Sullivan says that Cohn's seniority "creates tremendous problems because that precedent is not written down anywhere. It's an amazing situation" that is fundamentally unfair" to those with little or no rent control experience, he says...
...says. "When you do not get what you want, arguments are inevitable. "But Healy stresses that "if there are any problems with the actions of the board. I have no difficulty in reviewing the membership." He says he is aware that some members of the current board--especially Alfred Cohn--may have an unfair advantage because of their seniority. "Should we replace him [Cohn?]" Healy asks, and then responds to his own question, saying. "I don't think that he's performing poorly. He may be an asset because of his expertise...