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...taking place then. The scene is an Alabama plantation, with Franchot Tone as an aging, tippling, crotchety slave breeder and seller. Among his slaves are drunkards, onetime bedmates, "rheumatiz boys," and three Mandingos (so named for their ancestral African tribe), who to preserve their pure blood must practice incest. Among his family are a son who loathes his wife and lives openly with a slave girl, and a lewd, liquored-up daughter-in-law (Brooke Hayward) who, from having been her "brother's whore," becomes a Mandingo youth's relentless seducer. Among the play's activities...
...samurai sword while talking of herself as a severed head (see Freud on Medusa, a character hopefully prompts the reader). Lynch-Gibbon, a glutton for grief, is, of course, transfixed by this menacing Gorgon. By what black psychological thimbleriggery their union is achieved-despite innumerable obstacles of which incest appears to be the least-is too intricate to be described. A mythological key is provided on the novel's last page...
...which talented Novelist Gary (The Roots of Heaven, Lady L) could have written only in a state of boredom. Gary's Faust is Jose, a South American adventurer who figures that if he is bad enough, the devil will see that he makes good. Relatively ordinary vices (pimping, incest) do not seem to work, but when he turns to politics, the devil makes him dictator. For all his new-found power, Jose still admires only talent, and he has a collection of great talents on the way to perform in his privately owned nightclub-a Billy Graham-type...
...back of me hand to C. H. Dodd [who heads the group working on a new translation of the Bible]. The "archaic phrases" are one of the features that make the Bible the jewel that it is. If the "moderns" want seduction, incest, etc., it's all there for them, only in poetic form. What modern novel cuts a prostitute in twelve pieces, one to be sent to each tribe of Israel...
...interposing an artificial structure of reason. But some Protestant theologians, while far from accepting the classical Catholic version, are ready to underwrite natural law in some form. Reinhold Niebuhr denies the existence of natural law but concedes "certain laws, certain norms and degrees of universality'' (incest, for instance, is almost universally taboo...