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...Jewish-Jews figure prominently among the dark breed that has been operating as "black humorists," an easily applied label that sticks to those who examine the megaton-megalopolis age and find it funny only in a fearsome way. In Catch-22, now a classic of its genre, Joseph Heller presents an American pilot who would bomb his country's bases for "cost"plus 6%." In Stem, Bruce Jay Friedman deflates the American concept of the hero by making his anti-hero a round-shouldered, wide-hipped urban Jew helpless to handle his neighbors, his job or even his flirtatious...
...Heller, the change to basic black was not made basically for laughs. "I am not using humor as a goal, but as a means to a goal," he says. "The ultimate effect is not frivolity but bitter pessimism." As Critic Leslie Fiedler sees it: "Black humor fits anyone worth reading today. It's the only valid contemporary work." Nonetheless, the strongest critics of blackness are found among humorists, many of whom believe that humor that does not make people laugh is not humor at all. Some of the critics, however, confuse black humor with sick humor, whose chief practitioner...
...Walter Heller, who worked for Lyndon Johnson as well as John Kennedy and now teaches economics at the University of Minnesota, said that recent price increases and inventory buying have become so "disquieting" that the Government should start figuring out right now just which taxes to raise if pressures increase. Raymond J. Saulnier, who served under Dwight Eisenhower, said that the time had come to "cool off the economy a bit"; he called for a cut in Government spending, followed, if necessary, by a tax increase. Arthur Burns, who also served Ike, proposed much the same remedies as Saulnier. Even...
...monetary policy alone does not do the anti-inflationary job, the Government will move on the tax front. Economist Heller proposes a temporary suspension of the 7% tax credit for new investment; that apparently would be a quick way of relieving the capital-spending boom without offending too many people. Treasury Secretary Fowler, however, would prefer a general increase in corporate and personal taxes if necessary. Said Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen last week: "The Ad ministration is talking in terms of another 5% income tax increase and an added 2% corporate tax later this year...
Heat, thirst, mounting casualties and mutual distrust corrode the men's nerves, and the dialogue provided by Scenarist Lukas Heller is full of sting. Producer-Director Robert Aldrich, cool as a vulture, all but dawdles over these verbal wounds, as though choosing his victims for the violence to come. The shocks occur when least expected, notably in the delicate prologue and grisly aftermath of an encounter with a band of Arab cutthroats. An occasional wheeze of sentimentality, even a needless mirage sequence featuring Dancer Barrie Chase, are minor lapses. Most of the time, Phoenix flexes its muscles...