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...contrast with this intelligent treatment of the feebleminded is Robert Fisher's stale catalogue of bullfight lore. Fisher's use of a banal subject--the discovery of dedication, and death, in a bullfight--would be bad enough if the story were well-handled. But the author seems to have almost no control. Every possible detail and almost all the conceivable eventualities of a bullfight are crammed into the story, completely obscuring the character of the novillero who achieves his consummation in death. Besides this retailing of tauromachian local-color, Fisher afflicts his readers with a stiff, unrealistic dialogue (including some...
...previous affair, Cam by the bitter knowledge that he sits too far down the farmer's table to reach for Millie's hand. Their romance is not so much star-crossed as double-crossed, and Cam has to call on both his hobo and Pacific jungle lore to win an eye-gouging barroom brawl with his chief rival. Cam's and Millie's dilemmas are overwritten and underfelt. But in Minnesota-born Author Cahill's book, old nature, and not young love, is topic A, and for his evocations of a wheat field...
This realism is based on the completeness of the creation. Not only is it faithful to human consciousness, but it adheres strictly to its own internal laws, and the reader soon finds himself thumbing the appendix, absorbing lore and custom with enthusiasm which should shame every history teacher...
...pious) sprang up in the Polish ghettos and followed the zaddikim, or holy men, who rebelled against excessive emphasis on law and scholarship, which seemed to confine Judaism. They were cheerful mystics who insisted on sharing their personal inspirations with the whole community. Buber, a leading collector of Hasidic lore, is in a sense himself a zaddik. He too rebels against the overrigid emphasis on the law. But he has also moved away from the "enlightenment" of 18th and 19th century Jewish thinkers (which led to Reform Judaism). He distrusts all philosophical systems. His is less a way of thinking...
From the Tammany Tigers to the Pendergasts and Kellys and Crumps, the lore of the bosses had them as displaying their real inner benevolence by handing out Christmas food baskets and helping poor widows. These things they did, but in quest of power, not out of kindness. To a lavish extent, Frank Hague went through the same motions. As his monument to motherhood, for example, he left behind him the $1.8 million Margaret Hague Maternity Hospital. But Hague was hated and feared, and the secret of his power was that he was feared more than he was hated. Simply...