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Many of QB VII's sins are standard for the genre. The prose is an illiterate shorthand: "Lou was a tall, thin man with a sleepy face whose dominating feature was seventy Sy Devore suits." The plot is interstitched with editorials, sermons and lessons in writing. On the latter subject one can hardly deny Uris his soapbox. He has always been a crude novelist. Yet Exodus is the sixth biggest bestselling novel of the century,* and QB VII, after wintering comfortably atop all the charts, is now second only to Exodus in the author's hardback sales...
...exhibit at the Eliot House Junior Common Room of the works of Sy Gresser and Charlotte Lichtblau provides its own dramatic but calming balance of contrasting views of humanity. It is an exhibition which searches man from opposite perceptions-Gresser is intensely psychological in his evocations of the individual struggle while Lichtblau pursues the group stirrings of city-man and country-man with sociological insight...
...Sy Gresser's sculptures approach the human condition from the individual's viewpoint. They stand alone and often truncated in the room. Unlike Lichtblau's romantic vision of a social universe, his works appear to offer little hope for human salvation. One, "The Lovers," sitting inside the fire-place, presents two persons writhing on opposite sides of a wall, unable to touch one another. Gresser's sculptures cannot even give the consolation of a family group...
...insist that the target shooting is "strictly for sport." But one, an Auschwitz survivor, has his own reason. "Jews have to learn to shoot a gun," says Joseph Mittelman. "We didn't know the last time, and look where it got us." Even the organization's president, Sy Alper, admits that more than sport is involved for many. "Citizen patrol groups come to us all the time, or a local merchant who has had his store broken into. The rich Jews don't understand that these people are genuinely concerned. Our group doesn't look...
...saying, he reached for his sy ringe and his cocaine and was soon in a mist impenetrable even by pastiche...