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Betancourt-style voice of peasants and workers. At his best, Bosch seems to stand for sensible reform; at his worst, he indulges some of the erratic whims of a Jânio Quadros, Brazil's mercurial onetime President, who abdicated in 1961. Before the election, when a priest called Bosch a "Marxist-Leninist." he became so inflamed that he withdrew completely from the campaign-only to return to the race a few days later. Periodically, he has gone on verbal rampages, lashing out at his country's rich, criticizing the Alliance for Progress, and denouncing a big contract...
...celebrates Mass, and until the Great Silence that follows the night prayer of compline, his daily routine at St. Augustine's House, near Oxford, Mich., is marked by observance of the traditional hours of the divine office. It is a life much like that of any Benedictine priest in the Roman Catholic Church-but Father Kreinheder is not a Catholic. He is the first and only Lutheran monk in U.S. history...
...children (two are now dead), the offspring of a Jewish-Irish vaudeville team. Super-intellegent from birth, they started in rotation on a radio quiz kid show. Grown-ups now, they are spread far afield: Buddy teachers English at an upstate New York girl's college; Walker is a priest; Boo Boo a Westchester matron; Zooey a rising TV actor; and Franny a college student. The greatest of them all, however, was Seymour, who committed suicide on vacation in an earlier Salinger story, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish...
Seymour's spirit pervades the life of all the extant Glasses. As the oldest child, he initiated them into Zen and other mystical religious cults, and guided them in the ways of discovering whatever is inadequate or phony in their fellows. Dead, he became their high priest or Guru: his letters and diary are sacred relics, his poems too holy to submit to the public piece-meal. His legacy of knowledge brings Franny to the verge of insanity, and saves Buddy constantly from despair...
Gassman is hilarious in all his disguises -wax teeth, putty neb, store hair, tape-on tummy-but most hilarious as the con man conned by a girl friend (Anna Maria Ferrero) who does the wedding bit with phony jewels-and a real priest...