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Existential Judaism operates on a less cosmic scale too. Commentary Editor Norman Podhoretz tells in Making It how a high school teacher once insisted on taking him to a nonkosher restaurant?and he was so revolted that
...going to survive, it's necessary to concentrate on the good moments and forget the bad." Shortly afterward, his baby is born, the universe rejoices, the firmament lights up with fireworks. As a resolution of plot and a reconciliation of historical horror, this amounts to a cosmic lollipop...
ASESSING THE practical political questions raised by the results in Florida and New Hampshire is easier than assessing the cosmic issues raised by the Wallace vote. Muskie's disappointing showing in New Hampshire, and his disastrous nine per cent in Florida, indicates that he is no longer the front-runner in the Democratic race. The winner, other than George Wallace, appears to be Hubert Humphrey. Humphrey got twice the vote of Muskie and received heavy support from those groups which have been good to him before including old people, blacks, and Jews...
...eighty-six year-old priest is a friendly, if somewhat vague reminiscence about the clearly unusual boy that Agee must have been. It is written in the same expansive, liturgical style that Agee was himself to adopt. Out of Father Flye's anonymous compassion, one reads the cosmic compassion that marks Agee's earlier prose, moving into the more articulate, and particular compassion of his later work, A Death in the Family. The father of many spiritual children, Father Flye fostered in Agee his sense of being a child among many children, a child of many fathers, which...
...only member of Howard Wales and Friends who did not join in the cosmic ineptitude was Jerry Garcia. Standing to one side of the stage, he seemed at times almost disgusted by Wales' displays of pretension. He played only half of the set, but even then was not able to lead the group out of the mechanistic vacuum they served the audience...