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Another rueful Jewish hero! After Elkin and Roth and Bellow and Bruce Jay Friedman and Yahweh-knows-who! Will it never end? Apparently not. And what is most trying, this latest exemplar deserves special attention. For Bernard Malamud has invented a mixed-up little anti-hero all his own: the schlemiel-saint-eyes on heaven, feet on the banana peel. He has appeared in short stories (The Magic Barrel) and novels (A New Life, The Fixer). The Malamud man wobbles between laughter and tears. One minute he can be all suffering profile, squirming against his private cross. The next minute...
Nowhere is the literature of the put-on so prevalent as in the area of grey humor, the pale imitation of black humor. Kookiness serves for characterization, and unrelated zany episodes for story. The Do-Gooders exemplifies this genre, along with A Bad Man by Stanley Elkin and A Fine Madness by Elliott Baker. Manhattan-born Alfred Gross man, 41, who has written three other novels in the same vein, has been praised for his facility with a special, caviar kind of black humor that only the hip can hope to fully understand. Actually, The Do-Gooders is a variation...
...counts against him. Last week that conviction brought Wolfson, chairman of the Merritt-Chapman & Scott construction complex and one of the U.S.'s most controversial corporate raiders, a one-year prison sentence and $100,000 fine. Federal Judge Edmund L. Palmieri also sentenced a longtime Wolfson crony, Elkin ("Buddy") Gerbert, 58, to six months in prison and fined...
Unregistered Sale. Wolfson and an associate, Elkin ("Buddy") Gerbert, were charged with conspiracy in the 1960-62 sale of 690,000 shares of Continental Enterprises, Inc., a Jacksonville company that operates movie theaters. The heart of the indictment is that Wolfson and some associates unloaded the shares without registering the transaction with the SEC, as the law demands for such sales of "control" stock...
...years' experience, Pfaff's court helps more than 4,000 volunteer couples a year, gets 60% of them to make up and sign detailed "husband-wife" agreements that have the force of law. "Divorce courts throughout America are burying marriages that are still alive," says Meyer Elkin, Pfaff's supervising counselor. The success of conciliation courts proves that it is perfectly possible to create a rational divorce system that saves as well as severs-if the U.S. wants...