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...Halacha, which literally means "the proper way" and is an all-embracing term for the Torah, plus 2,000 years of legal rabbinical commentaries on it, covers every conceivable detail of daily life, from what constitutes a fair interest rate to how grain that falls into gopher holes during harvest time should be left for the poor. At Manhattan's Orthodox Yeshiva University, 150 rabbinic alumni listened to a lecture on halacha and science by Yeshiva's Dr. Moses D. Tendler, a 33-year-old rabbi and biologist. The lecture was a good example of how halacha changes...
Novelist Compton-Burnett reaps her harvest in a one-crop economy: dialogue. In cumulative context, it gradually convicts the reader-and all men-of the vanity that masks motives and the self-love that salves conscience. Despite her melodramatic devices, Author Compton-Burnett is rooted in the long and highly realistic English fictional tradition of asking where the money comes from and who gets it. The question she asks that is not English, but universal, is what life is and how one gets through the labyrinthine hell...
...posturing of the novice Samurai Kychukuibo, a frog-like fellow prone to temper fits and muscular ostentation. Certain exquisite shots give this modern film the formal organization of Japan's ancient art; without smothering the immediate drama, Kuosawa lets village tradition and the natural processes of harvest time, love, and old age give a sense of timelessness. The dignity and discipline of the samurai stand in eloquent contrast to the grotesque and the demonical animality of the bandits. Some of the fight scenes, by the way, are better than any found on the tube these days. Many die, some with...
...season of Sputnik and missile triumphs, the Soviet Union has about five times as many people working on the land as the U.S. does, and producing less. Presiding at a year-end Communist Central Committee meeting on the Soviet farm problem, Premier Nikita Khrushchev acknowledged that the 1959 grain harvest had been disappointing, allowed himself to be angry and sarcastic about...
...nations whose population is badly distributed, internal migration is a possibility. In the lush valleys of eastern Bolivia, labor is so scarce that soldiers have to be called in to harvest the sugar crop; yet one-third of Bolivia's population continues to live in the Andes, scratching a barely human existence out of dwindling tin deposits. In Indonesia, three-quarters of the nation's close to 90 million people live in cheek-by-jowl squalor on the island of Java, while most of neighboring Sumatra is left in jungle. But habit and human contrariness being what...