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...nature of things that the great bulk of student writing in literary magazines should fall below professional standards, and yet it is very important that editors have the courage to print the work of promising, but as yet unpolished, authors. However, the reader of the winter Mosaic ought to humble himself before the rampant audacity of the editorial board that has chosen to print Jonathan Shay's I'm Here, Are You There? The editors deserve blame because they, as men in some command over their intellects, have allowed a person with none over his to expose his inadequacy...
...relief to find that the other two articles in in this issue did not follow Mr. Shay's pattern of insobriety. But here the relief ended. Charles Vernoff's Defense of Neo-Hasidism answers Judith Kegan's diatribe against halfway-Hasids, which appeared in Mosaic last spring. Miss Kegan, says Vernoff, overstates her case when she debunks students who are only superficially enchanted with traditional Jewish mysticism. He argues instead that these spiritual dabblers ought to be encouraged, since they may eventually find true faith. Writing from palpable ignorance on this subject. I am unable to say whether Vernoff speaks...
...example of that 20th century phenomenon, the great novelist who does not write novels. The Fox in the Attic, his first novel in 24 years, is the first installment of a grand design, The Human Predicament, intended as a fictional study of the demonic forces that shattered the ancient mosaic of European civilization...
...started working in a mosaic style which, though still abstract, was tightly disciplined. But the mosaics did not satisfy him either. "Abstraction is no longer enough for me," he said. "So I'm returning to the image. The image gives one a wider sense of communication...
This scene from a full-length play, The Private Life of the Master Race, is a tessera in a jeweled mosaic arranged from the poems, songs, plays, letters and aphorisms of one of the 20th century's most remarkable playwrights, the late Bertolt Brecht. Put together with artful concern by George Tabori, perceptively directed by Gene Frankel, and acted with selfless intensity by a cast of six, Brecht on Brecht is an arresting example of offbeat off-Broadway. Close to stage rear, a portrait of Brecht peers out at the audience, eyes wily and skeptical, lips sealed...