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...first glance, group violence may not seem to be the U.S. paradigm. Individualists claw their way through the unrelieved shootings, stabbings, rapes and lynchings of American fiction; lone duelers against fate people the works of writers as various as Melville, Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Saul Bellow. James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking and his numerous uptight descendants-the Western marshal, the private eye-are solitary scouts strewing the wilderness with dead Indians and renegades. Still, the singular misfits who tamed the frontier with bile, brawn and bowies were also members of often hostile groups-cattlemen v. sheepherders, for example. Indeed...
...years ago. As head of the theology department at Washington's Roman Catholic Georgetown University, he was supposed to inaugurate a program in Judaism - and no teachers could be found. "There is a rabbi gap," Father McFadden complained wryly. Finally last summer, two Jewish scholars, including Rabbi Saul Kraft of New York City's Queens College, signed up to teach at Georgetown. But across the country other educators still echo McFadden's complaint. The scramble is on to find Jewish teachers-not only of theology but of Jewish history, literature and culture...
Seminarians and secular students alike find appeal in what Rylaarsdam calls "the worldliness of the Jewish Rylaarsdam also attributes in creased interest in Judaism to widely read Jewish novelists like Saul Bellow, whose moral in sights are "more attuned to this technological age" than many a Christian sermon...
...that the Gazette watches only over its own citizenry. In summer, the population swells from 6,000 to some 50,000, and the paper views the comings and goings of these fair-weather residents with a wry Yankee eye. Max Eastman, Saul Bellow, Thomas Hart Benton, James Cagney, Leonard Bernstein are the stuff of summer gossip. Such is its relish for celebrities that the Gazette mixes fact' with fantasy in breezy abandon. One memorable item revealed that "Truman Capote and Geraldine Chaplin have checked into the bridal suite of the Menemsha...
...SAUL STEINBERG plays with your mind. In his world, ornate vases tower over insubstantial people while gunny sacks and trash cans become city streets. His work is intimately contemporary, deliberately shirking any monumentality. With a draughtsman's feeling for line and form, a unique vision of twentieth century civilization and a not unsympathetic sense of satire, he fuses visual and psychological worlds...