Word: demonism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TEIBELE AND HER DEMON by Isaac Bashevis Singer and Eve Friedman...
...theatrical muse has been a bitch. Henry James' and F. Scott Fitzgerald's plays were disappointments; Saul Bellow's The Last Analysis lasted less than a month. Thus Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer and Collaborator Eve Friedman find themselves in distinguished company with Teibele and Her Demon, a "fable" for Broadway...
...girl of the title role (Laura Esterman) is a shtetl beauty, eyed from afar by the local shlemiel, Alchonon (F. Murray Abraham). Teibele loathes her admirer - until he appears in her bed room in the guise of a demon. Under the stars they become lovers, while under the sun they remain strangers, until the night creature persuades his lady to marry Alchonon. But with the public union come private agonies: the alchemic force disperses, leaving two ordinary people who plunge into insanity and sorrow...
...generator that uses crab wastes from canneries to produce a burnable methane. Craig Anderson of Kenny Lake received $400 to build a passive solar system that features collectors made of used beer and soft drink bottles. Kyle Green of Wasilla got $49,300 to build a demon- stration solar house suitable for northern latitudes...
...long Americans have blithely assumed that rivers of cheap energy would flow through that economy like a magic elixir in endless abundance. But as 1979 has vividly demonstrated, the nation takes extreme risks if it does not curb its addiction to demon crude...