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...Executioners Wait. Though Joseph K. is "arrested," he is permitted to go on working in the bank where he is a minor official. Sometimes he is summoned to the "Court." It is held in a filthy room in a tenement in a slum district. The spectators are all petty police agents of the Court. The attorneys, judges and law students misbehave in public with the wives of the Court attendants. The law "books, when Joseph K. finally peeps into them, are filled with obscene pictures. He never can find out the nature of the charge against him. He never...
...Pansy Nussbaum (Minerva Pious) is a triumph of comic virtuosity. To avoid offense to Pansy's prototype (the big-city Yiddish tenement dweller), Allen confines himself to kidding Yiddish-English. He seems endlessly aware of new and whimsical wrinkles in the dialect. "When I am a young goil, footloose and fancy," Pansy once related, "I am woiking, a waitress, in Doberman's delicatessen. Is coming every day for lunch a liverwurst salesman. He is a goodtime Irving, a fancy dandy, also floiting a bissel. The liverwurst salesman is to the other waitress, Supreme Feitelbaum, engaged. With ogling, also...
Frau Frieda Budde came to Berlin a year ago, went to live in a tenement at 33 Kolbergerstrasse. She never talked much to her neighbors. Her one friend was Old Man Faseler, who lived in the room next to hers. He spent most of his time in bed, fully clothed, with a cap on his head. Last week, he mumblingly related the climax of his neighbor's story: "She came home that evening frozen stiff. 'Frau Budde,' I said to her. 'You better warm your hands in hot water.' When...
...Dodds had been training faithfully all along. He had put his "stamina to a test" at Cincinnati last fall in a six-mile race. "Through the Lord," he explained, "I was able to beat my record time by one minute." This winter he is living in a dingy brick tenement in Roxbury, and trying to support his family (wife and two children) and study theology on voluntary gifts from churches where he preaches. Sometimes they give him $5, sometimes $10, sometimes nothing. Says Dodds, grinning: "I trust in the Lord to get me by, and sometimes they...
...they feel obligates all Christians to minister to men's bodies as well as to their souls. This obligation carries through to the body politic. "It is wrong," says George MacLeod, "to pray only for 'Margaret suffering from tuberculosis,' if you know too well the noisome tenement in and by which the suffering began. If we work with Margaret in prayer, we must work with Margaret's father in the housing issues at the next election...