Word: thief
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...THIEF'S JOURNAL by Jean Genet. 268 pages. Grove...
...Jean-Paul Sartre who canonized Jean Genet. But it was Genet himself-sodomist, petty criminal, playwright (The Blacks)-who thought up the notion that purified evil could be a kind of sainthood. His self-nomination is announced and ritually celebrated in The Thief's Journal, written in the '40s, which is just now translated and published in the U.S. By his own lights, Genet is indeed a saint. But he is a watch-charm saint, a petty demon whose villainy is on so small a scale that its very earnestness is laughable. The crimes that this Narcissus drops...
...quick-thinking Harvard student and his date spied, chased, and apprehended a thief carrying a portable television set out of Adams House at 1 a.m. yesterday morning...
Aided by a neighbor, Mark Patek '65, Gerhart chased the thief down Bow St. and caught him in front of the Lampoon. Miss Gillam meanwhile hailed a passing police car, and the youth was taken into custody. Gerhart modestly deprecated his heroism. "The fellow could hardly walk straight," he said...
...Commonwealth's ways would be changed, it was dispelled the day after the election in Wellfleet, a charming Cape Cod summer community. For his part in the construction of some harbor improvements, Deputy Sheriff Lawrence Gardinier was convicted on eight counts of larceny and adjudged "a common and notorious thief...