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...Moral Flounderer. Gabe Wallach is the novel's hero and its most troublesome shortcoming. The son of a well-to-do New York dentist, Gabe is an intelligent, joyless, bored young man who is a scholar more by default than vocation. When the reader first sees him, he is a graduate student at the University of Iowa (his most irksome course is, naturally, Anglo-Saxon-a sly touch of the kind Roth is best at). There Gabe meets Paul and Libby Herz, a morose young couple living in a water-stained barracks apartment furnished chiefly with smudged paper-ungraded...
...students' wide-ranging curiosity awes English Teacher Anne Wallach of San Francisco's Lowell High School: "They read everything from Greek classics to modern political novels. On their own, they tackle Dostoevsky, Camus, Thomas Wolfe and Elizabeth Bowen; on picnics they talk about everything from world politics to advanced physics. These students are definitely not dull. They're wonderfully vigorous...
Rhinoceros. lonesco's lone nonconformist (Eli Wallach) stalwartly resists joining the herd, even when his best friends (notably Zero Mostel) desert...
...picture deals with five people who sense but don't actually know where they are. Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Thelma Ritter, Eli Wallach, and Montgomery Clift make the characters vital not only as individuals but for what they represent: dreams that went sour, the lies, the payoff, the human self-destruction, and all that Miller sees in his own country and his own life...
...weeks getting a divorce and he has spent 30 years getting divorcees. He takes her to an isolated cabin, listens to interminable hard-luck stories out of Marilyn's childhood, falls improbably in love, hauls her off to a rodeo with two of his buddies (Montgomery Clift, Eli Wallach). She is terrified by the violence she sees there; he is bewildered by her inability to accept death as a part of life-in effect, to accept life. All four of them drive off to the mountains to rope some wild mustangs, which will be sold to a slaughterhouse...