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The Drifter is a thumb-time hitchhiker and full-time vagabond. Known only as Alan, he sleeps on strange streets and familiar beds, wandering from woman to woman, ending all his relationships with an easygoing "Ciao, baby." Except for that, he has little to say, and less to laugh about...
THE WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.)* Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes and Ingrid Bergman retell the story of imperial Russia's star-crossed Princess Anastasia, for which Bergman won a 1956 Academy Award.
Coagulated Syrup. The company's longest single item is "The Post Office," a sort of Our Town story as Kafka might retell it. A dusty, creaky, self-important postmaster rubber-stamps his way through bizarre, touching and humdrum encounters with the town's citizens. At skit's...
In 1904 Buber came across a testament of Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer, the 18th century's wonder-working Baal Shem Tov (the good master of the divine name) who founded Hasidism. Buber gave up politics and journalism to spend five years studying Hasidic texts, then wrote the first of...
John William Ward, in The Reporter, describes the book as a latter- day "jeremiad," that first peculiarly American literary form wherein Puritan reverends took their congregations to task for real--or imagined--sinfulness. His description of this aspect of the book is particularly apt. William James defined the uneasiness that...