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...fiction achieves a higher level. Paul Goodman's play Abraham and Isaac, while it does not deepen or alter our basic understanding of the biblical situation in the fashion of Kierkergaard's Fear and Trembling, does retell the story with poetic insight into the man of faith's process of willing. Also colorful bits of Hebraic philosophy enrich our understanding of the chracters and their outlook on life...
...brother's supplying Johnny with money, the personal question of his brother's being in love with Johnny's wife. Along with the problem of taking drugs, there is the problem of getting them. In other hands, this complex of elements might strengthen and deepen the story. But Playwright Gazzo is shakiest as a craftsman, and what might enrich only diffuses, what might add to the reality ends by subtracting from...
...code is satisfactory: it instructs captured soldiers to use all their resources for the welfare of other prisoners. They should first try to prevent capture, and once captured, aid their fellow prisoners and use every means to escape. Under new orders issued by Defense Secretary Wilson, military instructors deepen this resourcefulness by training men how to avoid interrogation, to minimize suffering, and increase their chances of survival. Easing the hardship of captivity demands every capacity of each prisoner of war. Yet the new conduct code fails our soldiers when it asks them to rely on their strength in a valiant...
...authority of one who took part in raids on Bardia in Libya and fought in Yugoslavia. His eye for the ridiculous still flashes quick as a pistol. He can still write crushingly of spivvish parvenus and loony Hebridean lairds. But the formerly ferocious satirist continues to broaden and deepen the fascinating experiment, begun in Men at Arms, of doling out uncertain portions of esteem and even affection to such characters as share his 18th century Tory's devotion to God, King and Country. As one result, a somewhat unforgiving melancholy runs through this often very funny book...
...British and French, instead of together as originally planned. Conant signed the protocols with Adenauer, while a crowd of U.S. and German dignitaries and newsmen looked on. Said Der Alte: "I value this as a symbol of confidence and friendship. It obligates us to carry on and deepen our mutual work...