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Universal Malady. The three short stories involved here, Defender of the Faith, Epstein and Eli, the Fanatic, have been faithfully adapted by Larry Arrick from the original late '50s texts. Indeed, he might have been better advised to put the evening together as a reading, since the interpolated narrative...
Unitarian Solution. The last story, Eli, the Fanatic, borders on mysticism. Its chief characters are a lawyer in a Brooks Brothers suit (Michael Tolan), his very pregnant wife (Rose Arrick), a Talmudic scholar (Lou Jacob!) and the scholar's helper (David Ackroyd). The assistant is a bearded D.P. who...
It is from his parents that many a skyjacker wants to flee. Often as a child he alternately detested both his father, who may have been alcoholic and violent, and his mother, in many cases a religious fanatic. Characteristically, he sought sanctuary first with one and then with another, and...
So much for temporal hell remembered. Stein's present haven is an institute established by an eccentric Cleveland widow persuaded that God was conceived in the desert by prophets who were themselves psychotics. As a fanatic inmate explains: "We were a nation, a nation that betrayed its God. And...
MERELY gaining effective control over China's 800 million people -a population twice the size of the British Empire at its zenith-was an epic achievement. But Mao Tse-tung's ambitions did not stop there. A few months after his conversation with Malraux, Mao launched the cataclysmic...