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Pantaloon Pilgrim. After the revolution, the Jews of Homel had obediently shaved their beards and otherwise tried to behave like loyal members of a godless and classless society. The results were not always happy. One rushed into the synagogue shouting, "Down with that rotten Sabbath! Long live, let us say, Monday!" Some changed their names, but although "it was only a matter of two rubles and the proper enlightenment," Lasik Roitschwantz passed up the opportunity of becoming Spartacus Rosaluxemburgsky. Adopting two saints' names in the hagiography of Marxism* was his last chance to stay out of trouble. Instead...
Satirist Ehrenburg also leads his pantaloon pilgrim to some slapstick swipes at Communist literature of the period. Although all he knew about the subject was that "Leo Tolstoy had a handsome beard just like Karl Marx," the little tailor becomes an "inexorable" Marxist literary critic. As pundit of proletarian literature -which is what Ehrenburg himself became after he ended his Paris stay in 1940 and went home-Lasik writes a preface for a socialist realist novel about romance in a soap factory ("Dunja yielded to the beat of new life, and whispered, blushing slightly: 'You see. we have surpassed...
...Birnbaum was writing the cover story. Wife Beth was waiting for admission to a Manhattan hospital for a minor operation. In the last hours before she took to a hospital bed, while running a fever from a throat infection, she went through a schedule that would have exhausted a Pilgrim's wife. She gave two music lessons, did a week's marketing, and decorated the den for an evening recital of one of her viola students.* The recital was topped off with ice-cream sodas for the eight concert guests, and it was after midnight before the Birnbaums...
...Virgin's left sits a powerful and pensive Mary Magdalene, holding a jar of ointment and looking like a second, less spiritual mother to the child, a sort of earth mother. At her feet kneels the picture's donor, who wanted himself painted as a pilgrim...
They Came to Cordura. A sort of western Pilgrim's Progress through the Mexican badlands with moral depth, wartime violence and Gary Cooper...