Word: herberts
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FATHERS, by Herbert Gold. A long, loving search-both forward and backward-for the essence of parenthood; a tribute to that most neglected figure in American fiction -the Jewish father...
...Berkeley's Sproul Hall Plaza last December, how many were there? Police estimated 7,000 to 10,000, and the newspapers dutifully reported the figure. But one reader was dissatisfied. "Estimating the size of a crowd may be the last area of fantasy in the newspaper business," observed Herbert A. Jacobs, 63, a longtime Wisconsin newspaperman who now lectures at the University of California. Jacobs set out to make a more scientific calculation...
Opportunity to Protest. Objections to the traditional clerical privilege come from ministers with sharply contrasting views about the Viet Nam war. Probably a majority of them are strongly against the war, would like their draft exemption withdrawn so that they could register as conscientious objectors. "The exemption," says Herbert Long, dean of students at Harvard Divinity School, "is a subtle way of not allowing the clergy the opportunity to protest." On the other hand, some seminarians feel that they should have the privilege of being called to serve, and not simply as chaplains, who at present are all volunteers...
FATHERS by Herbert Gold. 308 pages. Random House...
...Herbert Gold's "novel in the form of a memoir" is nostalgic enough to revive the lost magic of the 1930s for all who grew up with "Ovaltine Birthstone & Good Luck Rings . . . Joe Louis . . . black Fords with NRA stickers . . . tops from Ralston boxes to send away as a mark of esteem for Tom Mix." Novelist Gold (Therefore Be Bold) writes with fine irony, a strong sense of the absurd, and at times with the cynical insight accumulated by a perceptive man in 43 years of watching the shell game...