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...feminine. The current difficulty of differentiating a male from a female is not due to long hair-or to clothing-but to the feminizing effect of shaving. Men were intended to have beards and women to have smooth cheeks. Men have chosen to violate our Creator's dictum-and we pay for it in blood every morning...
...Waiting for Lefty conjures up visions of a cast storming an audience with cries of "Strike!" and Golden Boy suggests the apotheosis of sentimentalism--or else a bad musical with Sammy Davis Jr. No one thinks of Odets as a great dialogue writer, which he was, or as a creator of remarkably distinctive characters, which he was also. We think of him as a soapbox in possession of a typewriter...
...work written earlier during the Second Temple period. "From the external evidence," he says, "it is apparent that the author definitely wanted his scroll to be taken as the law of God." Unlike all other apocryphal writings of the time, the new scroll is written as though the Creator himself is speaking. In other Qumran texts, the word God is written in a distinctive script, a reminder that the sacred name is too holy to pronounce; in the new scroll, the letters for Yahweh are written in the style of the rest of the text...
Died. Robert Hans van Gulik, 57, Dutch creator of the Judge Dee Chinese mystery tales (The Willow Pattern, Murder in Canton); of cancer; in The Hague. An Orientalist by training and an ambassador by trade (to Japan, Malaysia), van Gulik was studying ancient Asian prose when he found the classic magistrate-detectives of Chinese literature. Supplying Occidental motives but preserving the delicate puzzle plots of the 7th century Tang dynasty, he pitted his wise and wily Dee against tyrants, palace power-seekers and assorted hatchetmen in 17 thrillers...
Died. Charles W. Morton, 68, humorist and editor; of a heart attack; in London. Creator of the Atlantic's "Accent" column, Morton specialized for 26 years in the slow, cerebral burn with which he seared pampered child stars, jargon-jawed sociologists, and the fractional fantasies of statisticians...