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...book is not so much history as artful evocation. Wiesel tells how Hasidism came to be, two centuries ago in those borderlands that were now Poland, now Russia. He also describes what Hasidism is. No matter that the movement's founder, the Baal Shem Tov ("Master of the Good Name") is already lost in legend. As Wiesel demonstrates, telling his tales learned from his grandfather's knee in Transylvania, Hasidism did not derive from fact or reason but from love and faith...
...Heights, a grenade explosion in Ashkelon-coincided with a meeting in Cairo of the 155-member guerrilla high command, the Palestine National Council. It also occurred during the four-day visit of West German Foreign Minister Walter Scheel, who conferred with Israeli officials and visited the Yad Va'shem memorial to the 6,000,000 victims of the Holocaust, and the Wailing Wall, where he donned a yarmulke and chatted with rabbis...
...ignores every dramatic basic. It lacks conflict. Its characters are unreal and undeveloped, and it fosters no affinity between the playgoer and the players. Noah's three sons are, respectively, a lout (Shem), a lecher (Ham) and a moral prig (Japheth). Noah straightens out their biblically unrecorded sexual hang-ups like a pre-lst century marriage counselor and spars in spurious stage-generation-gap fashion with his youngest son, who is skeptical about the Divine Establishment...
...carry on. Meanwhile, and regardless, I am putting questions to fellers: and regardless of the unanswerable what is truth? . . . Maybe, damme, all humans -the Shem, Ham and Japheth-just like you say, come from one branched-off source: our Grand-dad chimpanzee, our gorilla grandma, and the orang-patriarch. O.K. and granted. But sans sense, primates, and progeny of puny primates! Why bite one another now, though your ancestors might have? Répondez s'il vous plait! man hunting man! Ach, mein Gott! are human beings fools or what? In the interim . . . while I wait, and you tell...
...life. H. C. Earwicker's initials, as he himself explains, also stand for Here Comes Everybody and Haveth Childers Everywhere; his dreamscape is like a palimpsest in which myth overlays legend overlaying lore. Anna Livia Plurabelle (Jane Reilly) is also Dublin's river Liffey (life). His sons Shem and Shaun are, among others, Lucifer and the Archangel Michael. The film's multipersonaed hero himself combines such disparate characters as Adam, Tristram and Jonathan Swift. Joyce believed that the pun is mightier than the word. His double-entendres are so arcane and gusty that the movie must print...