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...AUCTIONEER by JOAN SAMSON 239 pages. Simon & Schuster...
Though Joan Samson's first novel owes its resonance to Shirley Jackson's American-gothic short story The Lottery, the book tends to provoke rather than frighten. The author's poetic imagery highlights the New England scene and characters: "Beneath the high wind, a tongue of water rang against the scoured stones like the wooden clapper in a bell, warning that they were slippery." The Auctioneer becomes less a tale of suspense than a parable of politics. The open questions it poses are as old as society itself: What is the nature of power? What makes people...
Delilah did not cut Samson's hair...
...Emancipation Proclamation, for example, applied only to the Confederate States. They were at war with the Union and ignored both the spirit and letter of the law. Delilah, according to Judges 16:19, made Samson "sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man and she caused him to shave off the seven locks ..." Nothing in the 18th Amendment prohibited the consumption of liquor, only its manufacture, sale or transportation. As for the cake eating, it was the haughty Duchess of Tuscany who made the remark circa...
When Director Geoffrey Holder was called in to rescue The Wiz during its disastrous pre-Broadway tour, he found that his biggest problem was the company's low morale. For Holder, a 6-ft. 6-in. Samson of a man from Trinidad, the solution was easy. He assembled the cast and crew onstage and asked them to pray while he exorcised the evil dispirit by burning incense given him by his father...