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...begun to seem as unreal as its '20s predecessor, The Sheik.) As for the literary plots that turn on forced marriages or horrific abortions, they will seem as dated as Prohibition stories. Free legal abortions and free birth control will force writers to give up pregnancy as the deus ex machina...
...might be antiexistentialist, though he detests labels and categories. Yet many of his characters are skepties. The God of Yascha. the profligate-turned-ascetic in The Magician of Lublin is a God who "revealed Himself to no one [and] gave no indications of what was permitted or forbidden." This deus absconditus appears in other stories as well. In "A Tale of Two Liars" Satan mocks a praying prisoner. "Are you stupid enough to still believe in the power of prayer? . . . There was enough prayer, wasn't there, when Chmielnicki came? How were those prayers answered? Children were buried alive, chaste...
...newspapers and television, explaining that such diversions would "tire" him. They schedule meetings with his former Cabinet ministers, who politely ignore his directives. They even admit some journalists if they promise not to reveal that Marcello Caetano is now Premier. On several occasions, Rear Admiral Américo de Deus Rodrigues Thomaz, Portugal's figurehead President since 1958, has tried to break the news gently to Salazar, who at 80 is lucid but semi-paralyzed. Each time, Dona Maria recently told a friend, Thomaz approached the old Premier's Lisbon quarters "with the firm intention of telling...
...source of the gloom was not new. In the past eight years, labor disputes have four times brought the Met to the brink of disaster. In 1961 its opening was ensured at the last moment deus ex machina (when President Kennedy intervened). But this time, New Yorkers were realizing with shock, there might be no opening at all. Worried, tired and gaunt, Met General Manager Rudolf Bing told TIME, "We don't know where to go. It is now a matter of life and death...
...Succeed details the rise of one J. Pierrepont Finch from nowhere to family and fortune, aided by a get-rich-quick book plus a bravely installed deus ex machina. This time around, one Pope Brock gives life to Finch, and he does so with a modicum of class. Brighter lights, on the other hand, shine to every side, not the least of which is Timothy Hall as J. B. Biggley, the boss of World-Wide Wickets where Finch is employed. Hall handles a considerably larger portion of the show's laughs than did Rudy Vallee in the B'way original...