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Isaac Bashevis Singer, author of Satan in Goray, The Magician of Lublin, and several collections of short stories, is the foremost living writer in Yiddish. His recent book, A Day of Pleasure, won the National Book Award in children's literature. "Children still belive in God, the family, angels devils witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff," he said as he accepted the award. The following interview took place about three weeks ago when Singer came to speak at Harvard...
...summer." Michael agrees: "I saw a friend of mine shoot a girl." Chicago's ghettos are dominated by gangs. Some, like the Blackstone Rangers and the Black Disciples, are virtual nations of the young, with their own hierarchies, territories and protocols. There are also the Deuces Wild, Satan's Lovers, the Imperial Clybourne Corruptors and the Suicide Cobras...
...real Manson apparently shared a belief in their oneness with God. "Among Martians," Heinlein's hero says, "there is only one religion-and it is not a faith, it's a certainty: 'Thou art God!' " Manson's followers often called him God, Jesus or Satan...
...nearby Byrant Pond, came home from the school and complained to her parents of "vulgar" content in her assigned reading. The minister and his wife sampled parts of the three novels and said they "were shocked." The Rev. Hanson branded the books as part of a "worldwide plot by Satan to teach young people to laugh at God," and resolved forthwith to get them removed from the school curriculum." I oppose their use on the grounds that they convey the idea that everyone lives like it says in the books," he stated ungrammatically, "and that teachers and churches approve that...
...complexity of Sorrows' sustained mood and action seems at first to be betrayed by its ending. Cortez, pursued by the shadow of Satan, flees to his true love. One thinks this is a cheap trick to get them back together and achieve a happy ending. It substitutes the crudest of cardboard religious symbolism for serious moral change. But the really cheap ending would have had Cortez repent and return of his own will. Force is required to return this malcontent to the women who loves...