Word: morrises
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Secret Report. Goaded to an answer, Pearson fired off a telegram to the Gazette: "It is true that a report by an R.C.M.P. secret agent mentions Norman as a member of the Canadian Communist Party in 1940, and it is no doubt this report, which was forwarded by the R.C.M.P...
Again he takes a familiar, almost mythical theme, turns it upside down and irradiates it with originality. His hero is Morris Bober, an aging Brooklyn grocer who is clinging to solvency by his fingertips. But Morris is also that legendary Jewish figure of misfortune, the schlemiel, whose fate has been...
Toward Expiation. Morris Bober's world is bounded by his seedy store, his endlessly nagging wife Ida, his difficult daughter Helen-a girl who wants "to be a virgin again and at the same time a mother"-and his wealthy neighbor Karp, whose "every good fortune spattered others with...
When shabby Frank Alpine shows up, eager to work without pay ("I need the experience"), Morris suspects there must be a catch somewhere. Why should anyone want to work for nothing, Ida asks, and a gentile at that. "Give him better a dollar he should go someplace else," she urges...
Against Windmills. Though Malamud's people have a bad time of it, they are never just helpless victims of life. Out of each debacle they draw surprising strength; always ready to charge the next windmill. Helen is convinced she will eventually get the college education that will change her...