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...much birth control could be a disaster for Jews, argue Commentary Editor Norman Podhoretz and Contributing Editor Milton Himmelfarb in the magazine's April issue. Given the low level of Jewish fertility, Podhoretz warns that Jews who advocate Z.P.G. are pushing for ethnic "suicide." Would even the devil, he asks, "have ever dreamed that so many would come to sterilize their very own selves in the name of a greater sense of responsibility to the future, and a greater reverence for life...
What he yearns for is a therapeutic attachment for his gadget so that he can cure as well as diagnose. Before long, he is in the hands of an ultramodern devil named Art Immelmann, who claims to be the liaison man for the somehow still-functioning Rockefeller-Ford-Carnegie foundations. Art explains that all three are anxious to fund lapsometer research in return for patent rights. Dr. More signs them over, and in no time at all the device is being used to foment further disorder. As a satire the book has something to offend just about everyone. Conservative Catholics...
...fairly simple plot are frequently interrupted by little extrapolative scenes. This is a hazardous technique, for such material must have an independent value great enough to warrant stopping the action of the play. A ballet parody between a tutu-ed, gum-chewing thief and a pointey-tailed, devil's-horned Jonathan Wild works well. An improvised illustrated lecture on the famous escape of Jack Sheppard from Newgate, given by Jack himself, is brilliant. The gyrating, record-dispensing rock star who sings a "ballad" about Jack is painful, and stands as an excellent example of the limits of such a patchwork...
...keep). The system has lately been lambasted by three national commissions on education, is under study at the universities of Utah and Wisconsin, and faces attack in the legislatures of eleven states. Tenure, charges John R. Silber, president of Boston University, has become "a device used by the devil to encourage faculty slothfulness...
...scenes, he never relinquishes the mood of intense spiritual crisis. He conjures up the harsh, flinty, arrogant valor of the 19th century New England mind, which, demanding much of others, demanded even more of itself. With a God such as Melville's, one scarcely needs a Devil. He, like Hawthorne, might have taken for his text Jonathan Edwards' fearsome sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." It is those hands, and not Moby Dick's great maw, that finally engulf Pequod and its doomed captain and crew...