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Most Jewish Gospel. Brandon argues that Mark's attempt to exonerate the Romans of any responsibility for Jesus' death and to play down Christian involvement in the Zealot revolt was further supported by the later Evangelists, who also emphasized Christ's pacifism. Although Matthew wrote for Jewish Christians, possibly in Alexandria, he was apparently so grief-stricken by the fall of Jerusalem that he could only ascribe it to unwise political activism and divine retribution for the rejection of Jesus-which explains why this "most Jewish" of the Gospels is steeped in collective Jewish guilt. Luke...
Neither of these books is awaited with the eagerness that attends Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint (TIME, May 17), which comes on the scene next month after the greatest prepublication fanfare since Death of a President. The plot tells the sexual misadventures of Alex Portnoy from priapic adolescence in Newark to insatiable maturity in New York City government. Excerpts have appeared in the New American Review and Partisan Review as well as in Esquire, and the unpublished book has already earned over half a million dollars. Its real value, though, lies in Roth's revelation...
...reader into the pullulating heart of some modern institution, which thereafter teems with professional expertise and ersatz emotion. Among the best and most successful recent examples are Arthur Hailey's Hotel and Airport. Next year, intrepid fiction reporters will go inside such serious installations as hospitals (The Death Committee by Noah Gordon), the aircraft industry (Brood of Eagles by Richard Stern), and the construction of a New York skyscraper (The Builders by William Woolfollc...
...atrocities on both sides. By fall, the Germans' military front was deteriorating rapidly and their escape route was still threatened. Kesselring's frustration turned into a cold fury, which vented itself on the 4,000 residents of Monte Sole. From Sept. 29 through Oct. 1, SS death squads visited Monte Sole's villages and rounded up, shot down, grenaded and then burned more than 1,800 inhabitants. Most of them were women and children...
...Homestead steel strike in 1892 (eight years after Allan's death) that finally turned the word Pinkerton into a hated synonym for union-breaking muscle; for during that strike, Winchester-toting agents were imported as "watchmen." As late as the 1930s, Pinkertons were finding congenial work playing labor spies on behalf of management. For today's Pinkerton heirs, however, the intoxicating old self-righteousness is gone. Robert II, the fourth generation of detective Pinkertons, who would have preferred to remain a Wall Street broker, is now chairman of the board. Seventy branch offices are tamely staffed with...