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...Isaac had to grab the wall." In Ireland, the sky is so dark, "the elves must have put a roof on Cashel Hill." Shouts of murderers and comedians sound across the Hudson and Liffey rivers. Episodes in Nighttown and the underworld consciously echo the rhythms of James Joyce and Saul Bellow, but Charyn manages to sustain his own peculiar tone, a unique amalgam of psychological insight and scatological farce. It is one of the most unlikely and compeling literary combinations since T.S. Eliot's Gerontion mixed garlic and sapphires...
...event will feature a colloquium with two of America's most distinguished Judaic scholars, Salo W. Baron, professor emeritus of Jewish History at Columbia University, and Saul Lieberman, rector of the Jewish Theological Seminary...
...weekend of the establishment of Harvard's new Center for Jewish Studies. Likewise, two talks scheduled for Sunday are unrelated to this event. Not beginning at 1:30 Sunday afternoon in Science Center C, Salo Baron of Columbia will discuss "Problems of Jewish Identity From an Historical Perspective," and Saul Lieberman, of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, will not follow him with a schpiel on "The Achievements and Aspirations of Modern Jewish Scholarship...
...Saul Steinberg, artist and cartoonist: "The doodle is the brooding of the hand...
...supported by his second wife, Alma, who worked as a salesclerk in Manhattan department stores. By the time of his brother's death in 1944, Singer had become a recognized writer-but only to readers of a dying language. One of them was a young novelist named Saul Bellow, who translated Singer's tale, Gimpel the Fool, the story of a village simpleton transfigured by the belief that the next world "will be real, without complication, without ridicule, without deception." Remembers Singer: "This story brought me so much popularity-somehow I have the strange feeling that...