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Polish-born Author Singer, 53, a columnist on Manhattan's Jewish Daily Forward, takes a Manichaean view of God and an ironic view of man. In Joy, the Lord of Hosts finally justifies his stern ways to a modern Job. In The Wife Killer, Author Singer touches on a recurrent theme, that vengeance is God's business, not man's. The book's best tale is the title story about Gimpel. who has seven names in all: 'Imbecile, donkey, flax-head, dope, glump, ninny and fool. The last name stuck." Gimpel the Fool...
Faulkner scarcely believes in the good old plantation Sartorises and the old Southern heaven, but he believes in its present hell. He is a Manichaean and a Mississippian, a confused and magnificent novelist whose magnificence comes from his confusion and that of the people he has made...
...good" people can be endured only by hardened John Wayne addicts or by people with a vigorous sense of humor. But the demonic Captain Galdino is one of the great Manichaean figures of the year. And if the cowboy romance is hard to take, it's great fun to see those crazy Latins laughing and singing and killing people...
Among the six stories in this book are a study of the dead hand of the past on a living person; a study of the Manichaean heresy (the notion that the Devil is as powerful as God and that they struggle for supremacy); the galloping putrefaction of American letters; the galloping putrefaction of moral and political values. Author Wilson has also chosen to write literally (and incidentally) about sexual intercourse. As a result, Memoirs of Hecate* County will probably be hailed as an event in gaminess...
...Thesis. Bertrand Russell displays present-day laws and ideas about sex as an extraordinary potpourri* obtained from savages, ascetics, Roman lawyers, Manichaean heretics, Teuton romanticists. All of them, says he, are based upon the idea of indissoluble connection between coition and conception, which is practically no longer true. Showing the disastrous effects of this makeshift state of affairs, he then considers various other possibilities, from the standpoint of the state, the child, the adult. His own proposal goes a step further than companionate marriage-as the family is of importance chiefly to the child, a man and woman should...