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NONFICTION: The Chief, Lance Morrow -- Citizen Hughes, Michael Drosnin -- Henry James: Literary Criticism, edited by Leon Edel and Mark Wilson -- The Periodic Table, Primo Levi -- Up for Grabs, John Rothchild -- A Vanished Present: The Memoirs of Alexander Pasternak, edited by Ann Pasternak Slater...
...kidnaping of the baby from a hospital; it ends, after a cross-continental trek, at a revivalist religious meeting in Moose Jaw, Sask., where the infant, Jesus O. Tarbox, is to be put forward as a new Messiah. The play is performed at fever pitch by its authors, Levi Lee, Larry Larson and Rebecca Alworth, and their dual roles have made them a little undisciplined: they have tended to retain anything that gets a laugh or a gasp of astonishment. Thus the first act ends with startling visual evidence that the infant really possesses spiritual powers; the second act does...
...Italian Jewish novelist Prime Levi, who has devoted much of his life to trying to express what he witnessed as a prisoner at Auschwitz, has written that "our language lacks words to express this offense, the demolition of a man." When we write of radical evil in the world, we can record the details of its existence, the facts about its operation, but we cannot translate the darkness itself. More words betray...
...German contradiction is also embodied by Wagner, who wrote the noxious anti-Semitic essay Jewry in Music, yet who also allowed Hermann Levi to conduct the premiere of the Christian epic Parsifal at Bayreuth. Faust, the national symbol, might be speaking for both Luther and Wagner when he says at the beginning of Goethe's play, "With keen endeavor I have studied philosophy, jurisprudence and medicine, and even, alas, theology. And yet here I stand, a poor fool no wiser than I was before...
NONFICTION: The Chief, Lance Morrow -- Citizen Hughes, Michael Drosnin -- Fathers Playing Catch with Sons, Donald Hall -- Henry James: Literary Criticism, edited by Leon Edel and Mark Wilson -- The Periodic Table, Primo Levi -- Up for Grabs, John Rothchild...