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Kafka's spirit was as precise as hallucination, but triply or quadruply removed, adrift, isolated: a German-speaking Jew living in Prague in the twilight of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, emotionally overpowered by his father. Interesting, if futile, critical combats have been waged over the question of whether Kaf ka was merely a talented neurotic or a visionary genius. Edmund Wilson wrote in 1950: "Kafka is being wildly overdone . . . The trouble with Kafka was that he could never let go of the world-of his family, of his job, of his yearning for bourgeois happiness-in the interest...
...worst problem lies in the loose construction of the bill's text. Christians point out that they could conceivably be convicted of offering material inducement if a recently converted Jew made use of Christian-run schools or hospital services. One spokesman adds that the bill's suggestion that well-heeled Christian missions engage in bribery for souls is "calumny, slander and libel, as well as an incitement to hatred." By official record, only 17 Israeli Jews converted to Christianity from 1974 to 1976, though Christians claim that considerably more have secretly done...
...district center of the Marshall Islands is a bacillus-shaped coral atoll less than 100 yds. wide. A palm-fringed island with a glistening lagoon, Majuro shelters the most unusual mix of American expatriates in the Pacific. The island's biggest contractor is a Portuguese Hawaiian. A Massachusetts Jew manages the copra-processing plant. They are a demonstrative lot. When Majuro's American Chamber of Commerce got no satisfaction at a meeting to protest air-freight rate increases, members pelted the two Air Mike representatives with banana cream pies...
...Jewish people, children are the focus of life. Whatever the Jew has or doesn't have, as long as things will be better for the children all is well. But now these children, who have grown up and are applying to college and med school and law school, are finding that many of the places in these schools are going to minority students who may have gotten lower grades and test scores than they have...
...jacket and tie, usually bows to the Israeli flag (no other Premier did this) and is scrupulously polite to his staff. His predecessor, Yitzhak Rabin, was introverted, often seemed indecisive and headed a quarrelsome government tarred by corruption charges. Begin is an enthusiast, transparently honest, and a devoutly Orthodox Jew. Says a Labor-appointed official who was kept in his post by Begin: "The Premier is a very proud Jew, very conscious of history, very conscious of the Holocaust. He makes Jews all over the world, as a people, feel very proud of themselves...