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Thwarted expectations make for grumpy readers, and Freddy's manuscript, a rather dry narrative of political intrigue in 16th century Scandinavia, does not seem calculated to appease them. The chief antagonists to emerge from much torchlit huggermugger are Lars-Goren, an idealistic Swedish knight, and the Devil, who decides to help Lars-Goren's kins man Gustav overthrow the occupying Danes and become King of Sweden. Satan's motive is chiefly to perpetuate unrest and chaos. History, after all, has been running on his side: "Magellan had recently circled the globe, opening vast new avenues for greed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Devil's Due | 3/31/1980 | See Source »

Hence Lars-Goren's dilemma: how to work for a presumed good (the liberation of his homeland) while being energetically assisted by the archetype of evil. This problem leads to further questions, most of them posed by Bishop Brask, an unscrupulous and despairing Swedish prelate. Could it be that "every thing's the work of the Devil"? What if "God himself is a Devil's lie"? Is the term might makes right "profoundly true? Suppose that there is in fact no good in the world except that which survives. " How is it possible to act according...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Devil's Due | 3/31/1980 | See Source »

...Palestine Liberation Organization bracelet, but the transplant particularly offended many Orthodox Jews. To them, religious law forbids tampering with corpses in any way, either by transplants or autopsies, and last week they pursued their campaign to outlaw autopsies. The hard-liners are also infuriated at Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren, who decreed that the kidney transplant was a mitzvah (worthy deed), because it was done to prevent a death. He adds: "We're not allowed to discriminate between Jews and non-Jews in the saving of a life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Tidings | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

...staff of 550 people is Jewish and that many Jews work on Saturdays, Barkai refused to accept Zolty's demands, warning that "hundreds of Jews will be forced to leave hotel service." Although five other hotel managers caved in, the others are backing Barkai. So is Shlomo Goren, the Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Israel, but his support has not changed Rabbi Zolty's view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: Not Kosher | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

Arabs regard the proliferation of Israeli settlements as proof that Israel will never surrender the West Bank and is not much interested in going to Geneva anyway. Inadvertently, Israel's Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren may have provided further support for that view. "Geneva is like the next world," he said. "It is a beautiful place to be, but you try everything you can not to go there too soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Will the Working Paper Work? | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

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