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...folder containing his will. But as Muscovites who have been flocking to the new production soon discover, Thus We Will Win is no routine story of squabbling heirs. The character at center stage is Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet state; the document he seeks is a political testament in which he warns his colleagues of future perils to the Communist Party...
...With all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt," says Leviticus 2:13. Because of its use as a preservative, salt became a token of permanence to the Jews of the Old Testament. Its use in Hebrew sacrifices as a meat purifier came to signify the eternal covenant between God and Israel. In one biblical case, salt symbolized a lack of fidelity. In Genesis 19:1-29, two angels of the Lord command Lot, his wife and two daughters to flee the sinful city of Sodom without ever looking back. When Lot's wife cast a fleeting glance backward...
Luckily for Haig's standing with the White House, his one published comment on Ronald Reagan is a testament to his boss's persuasive powers in "one-on-ones...
...that, but so did the trouble. There were technical foulups: Ed Asner and Elizabeth Taylor were momentarily trapped in the folds of a falling curtain, like big game in a tree trap. The pace slowed: "I can't read my monitor," James Earl Jones rumbled like an Old Testament prophet rebuking his flock. Most of all, the pretension showed: birthday candles were lit on a cake that looked like the Tower of Babel, as discomfited luminaries dished up decades of encapsulated world history in which the Actors' Fund got featured billing ("A Russian named Pavlov used dogs...
Fritz Zorn is a pseudonym, chosen spitefully and well. In German, Zorn means anger. This rancorous testament is the work of a sensitive mind slowly unhinged, a desolate howl against the inhuman condition. It is a sound familiar to doctors. Occasionally, if the writer is skilled enough, laymen can hear it. In Mars even the whispers are deafening. -By Richard Stengel