Word: reb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...says, had limited but precise objectives. He chides students for being in love with revolution-"perpetual change, perpetual spontaneity"-for its own sake, as if it were a marvelous formula for releasing all the virtues, including love. On the other hand, Spender complains, given half a chance student-reb els go all brisk, like "frustrated bureaucrats." (As he observes: "The first thing they set up is a committee...
...Reb. Pts. Avg. Dale Dover 16 72 295 18.4 Chris Gallagher 16 114 175 10.9 Ernest Hardy 16 132 158 9.9 Eric Gustavson 16 78 150 9.4 Bob Kanuth 11 51 106 9.8 Mike Janczewski 16 59 104 6.5 Bob Johnson 8 32 73 9.1 Paul Waickowski 15 27 38 2.5 Jay Noble 14 7 35 2.5 George Yates 14 22 24 1.7 Joe Stanislaw 10 2 8 0.3 Mike Collins 7 1 4 0.5 Brad Call 3 3 2 0.4 Barth Royer 2 1 2 1.0 Others 4 1 Team Rebounds 151 Harvard Totals...
Enter Laurence Senelick as Reb Azrielke. For the remaining two acts he commands the stage, judging the rightness of the dybbuk's claims, then bringing the powers of the underworld against him. Senelick is by turns pitious and imperious, awful in the robes of his rabbinical office, then faint in the arms of a friend. His lines are difficult, full of the persistent legalisms that could have reduced tragedy to laughable pontification. Set against the virtuosity of his performance is the disembodied voice of the dybbuk, sounding all the more despairing and alone in its electronic chill. There, away from...
More often, Agnon transcends the Orthodoxy of his material. In The Bridal Canopy, the Hasid Reb Yudel Nathanson, a deliberately quixotic hero, half saint, half shlemiel, sets out to beg a dowry for his daughters. The book is one long metaphor for the wandering Jew, but Agnon heroes have a disconcerting universality. "A difficult thing to grasp," says Reb Yudel, pondering war. "What satisfaction do the kings derive in sending folk of this countryside to another land and folk of another land to this countryside? What difference does it make to the Angel of Death whether he has to come...
...Bridal Canopy is a frame story, and the tales that Agnon tells along Reb Yudel's digressive way fill the landscape with a teeming humanity. Like Yudel himself, the characters appeal to readers of any faith: the pompous petty official totally unstrung by the disappearance of his cat; the husband whose love for his sterile wife crumbles at last before the siege of his kin; the cantor whose heavenly voice dissolves the synagogue in tears-and who gets blind drunk on a holy...