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...FINE MADNESS, by Elliott Baker. A lighthearted novel about Samson Shillitoe, a poet, souse and womanizer with a talent for anarchy...
...FINE MADNESS, by Elliott Baker. A lighthearted novel about Samson Shillitoe, a poet, souse and womanizer who keeps the plot in motion with his talent for anarchy, his tropism for cops, and his tendency to rant at strangers...
...Stupid Samson. No fundamentalist, Staack constantly relates archaeological findings to Scriptural passages, he believes that the divine revelation coming to man in the Bible is expressed within the limitations of a historical frame work. Thus he violently opposes the "glorification" of Biblical figures that commonly takes place in Sunday school teaching. "Look at the use God makes of humans," he says. "Moses was hotheaded, but God loved him and used him. Stupid Samson was found useful; so was cruel Joshua. Throughout the Scriptures, real people are used by God -not people who have been placed on an artificially high level...
...Rural & Suburban Settlement Co. Ltd.) was originally set up 30 years ago by the World Zionist Organization to lay out and stock farm communities for middle-class German Jewish refugees. But as Israel gradually became agriculturally self-sufficient, Rassco's horizons widened. The company still raises sheep in Samson's Ashkelon, and cattle on the plains of Maresha where Joshua's army marched. But through a string of 52 subsidiaries and affiliates, Rassco is now involved in citrus groves, organic fertilizer, dairies, Bible publishing, diamond polishing, supermarkets, North Atlantic fishing boats, hotels and high-rise apartments...
...setting by Debbie Samson conveys an atmosphere suitable only to the Shakespearean segment, but Paul Pietz's lighting contributes to the general professional elan of the production...