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...focus of their tront-lme dreams, a city of dazzling peacetime riches, of sunny, soft-bodied girls strolling along the Corso. In entering Drohitz. exults Gravedigger Adam Ember of the army's medical corps "we belonged to life once more." Dead Wrong. Ember, the passive tattered Everyman of both novels is dead wrong At first. Drohitz girls and Drohitz gilt shops make the troops royally wel come. City fathers entertain the officers at an orgiastic banquet that precedes a midnight trip to the Mashinka Drohitz' spectacular red-light district. There less than 24 hours after the army...
...because they are fashioned on the essentially human principle of both/and rather than either/or. Hamlet is more than the sum of his paradoxes; he is the paradox of man seen whole. All one knows for certain is that being Hamlet is Hamlet's tragedy-as being himself is everyman...
...Whose familiar bowler-hatted Everyman, standing firm against chaos and bearing the symbols of simplicity and purity (bread and water), was used to illustrate Milton's description of the "victory of truth...
...Everyman's Problem. As Jon tries to pin Peter down long enough to sober him up and give him another last chance, Endless Road becomes a relentless chase sequence through Chicago's flossy and sleazy bars, plush and fleabag hotels, punctuated with impromptu shackups. Contrary to prevalent opinion, Author Treat argues that the real alcoholic is a man of satyrical urges and astonishing potency. At novel's end, a penitently sober Peter is entraining for dry New Mexico desert country-but with his hand ominously poised on the doorknob...
...from the calendar. He lacks conviction, or at least a sense of balance, when he fulminates against psychiatry, society and orthodox religion, and soapboxes the reader's ears on the virtues of A. A. (which relies heavily upon religion). Starting from the premise that the alcoholic may be Everyman, Author Treat ironically seems to end up proving the opposite-that the alcoholic is a sectarian in a strange mystical brotherhood in which the only man who has the savvy to salvage a drunk is another drunk...