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Script A: the classic American war novel. Becker introduces his protagonist Benny Beer, a New York tailor's son in a corporal's uniform, straggling alone across a World War II battlefield in Germany. Later, as Dr. Beer, Benny turns up in Korea, enduring 2½ years in a Chinese prison camp. Here Becker is at his most persuasive as storyteller and moralist...
...messiah is as odd, as unexpected, as much of a stumbling block to credulity as most messiahs. His name is Simon Stern. He was born in 1899, the son of Polish immigrants to New York's Lower East Side. Simon's father works in a tailor shop. His mother tends a vegetable stall. Simon's life is devoted to a most worldly obsession-money...
More important, this arrangement is tailor-made to Sears' office requirements. The company wanted huge rooms to house its current departments and employees, plus floors that could be rented until the fast-growing company expanded into them. Most renters, however, do not need vast interior spaces; they want windowed offices around a compact central area. To get both kinds of floor layout, the architects terminated two of the tubes at the 50th floor level, two more at the 66th floor, and another two at the 89th floor -thus creating much smaller, and more rentable spaces on the higher stories...
...properties and costumes are a hodgepodge of tailor-made objects and hand-me-downs altered slightly for the play. Their make-shift nature is not a disadvantage. Free from the dazzling technical equipage of the Loeb's main theater, the Ex affords an atmosphere in which an audience can concentrate at close range on the crucial aspects -- the acting and the meaning of the text -- of a difficult play like The Philanderer. In this atmosphere, the experiment at the Ex this weekend, if not completely successful, is worth performing...
...cells, meanwhile, are stimulated to produce antibodies, which immunologists believe can be tailor-made to interact with each of the millions of different organisms a human may encounter in his lifetime. The antibodies lock onto foreign substances, making them far more susceptible to ingestion by macrophages and other scavenger cells...