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They are perhaps meant to seem agelessly racial. Noah may be hooted at when he first reveals God's warning of the Flood; but he is to be feared and obeyed, and can force a reluctant Japheth-who resents God's cruelty in letting other men drown-into the Ark. Odets tells, too, of family weaknesses: a Noah who drinks, a Ham who wenches, a Shem who loves money, and of a cooped-up family's bickerings. But these people also have their loyalties and affections, and out of the Flood a despotic Noah learns humility...
Writing in his accustomed idiom of the lower East Side, Odets has made Noah (played by Menasha Skulnik) a symbol of fatalistic determinism while his son, Japheth (played by Mario Alcalde), represents the viewpoint that God wants men to work out their own fate. This clash (played by a rudder for the Ark, which Japheth insists upon and which Noah calls a sinful negation of God's Will) is not a startling new theme, but is well dramatized and well acted...
...Deluge!! "Bette Williams in her greatest-ever role as Noah's wife. Shut up in a floating menagerie with a wild-eyed, 600-year-old prophet! Is he saint or maniac? You'll never forget Shem, battling against the fire in the blazing hold; or Ham rescuing Japheth from the maddened gorilla they dare not kill! . . . Marvel at Lassie as she rounds up the escaped leopards fighting on the roof...
...Wilmot '51 carried off the water-flecked laurels in the wherry race, pushing his mahogony-stained ark across the finish line six lengths ahead of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, who were rowing as a team with two of every kind of oars...
...According to the Bible, all the races of man are descended from Ham, Shem and Japheth, the three sons of Noah: from Shem come the Semites (including Jews and Arabs). At the U.N., Arabs often call the Jews "our cousins...