Word: jeremiah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Captain of Detectives Patrick F. Ready said yesterday that "there is nothing to indicate foul play" in the death of Jeremiah Brickman 2L who died Saturday night at Peter Bont Brigham Hospital from injuries allegedly received Thursday...
...PROPHET JEREMIAH GOES INTO HIDING...
Inhuman Necessities. Jeremiah enters Kentucky politics as a "Reliefer," feels uneasy about the underhanded tactics of his party, but is caught up in a web from which he can never escape. After Fort abandons "Relief," his former cronies publicly denounce him as Rachel's seducer. The dirt becomes even thicker when Jeremiah mysteriously receives a circular signed by Fort in which Rachel is charged with having given herself to a Negro slave. For Jeremiah, pressed by the inhuman necessities of politics and the all-too-human taunts of his wife, there is no longer a choice...
From then on, Jeremiah rushes headlong to disaster-an elaborate venture into murder, his apprehension by some bumbling louts intent on gaining the reward for the murderer's discovery, the climactic trial at which he hears himself convicted by false testimony he cannot refute because of his even greater fear of the truth. After a last-minute escape to a miserable outlaw camp in the wilderness of Kentucky, he comes to the final, crushing discovery that he has been the victim of a plot by his political cronies...
...Worth Nothing?" In the end, outcast and betrayed, Jeremiah sends his last unheeded cry to the world: "I had longed to do justice in the world, and what was worthy of praise. Even if my longing was born in vanity and nursed in pride, is that longing to be wholly damned? . . . And in my crime and vainglory of self is there no worth lost? Oh, was I worth nothing, and my agony...