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...home. But he is far from unsophisticated. Asked after the wedding what had gone on at his bachelor's party, he quipped: "We sat around and crocheted and then we had a musi-cale!" Just then he noticed a lensman shooting pictures of Jill and him from a worm's-eye view. "That's an interesting angle," observed Reventlow. "You must have shot many stag films...
...Worm infestation...
...Less fortunate people, she suggested last week at Yale, can blame Immanuel Kant. Just when faith was on the wane, and self-interest had a foot in the door, he "saved the morality of altruism" with his duty-setting "categorical imperatives." It was he who bred the mental worm that makes modern men "equate self-interest with evil," that makes businessmen afraid to admit they seek profits (i.e., happiness), that leaves the victims of dictatorship feeling "selfish" if they resist. "The ulti mate monument to Kant and the whole altruist morality is Soviet Russia...
...Jewish law forbids man to kill on the Sabbath-even a flea or a worm. But an exception is made in the case of head lice and maggots. Why? Because, say the ancient commentaries, these are not real creatures in the line of life but the result of spontaneous generation-the louse from man's sweat and the maggot from decaying meat. Modern science, however, does not accept spontaneous generation; hence there must be some other reason for the law's distinction. Rabbi Tendler's answer: the dividing line is between the organism which exists on living...
There is no sign in Mr. Mayer of the uncompromising toughness of mind needed for the task he sets himself. For all his surface cynicism he is worm-eaten with sentimentality. Whenever he tries to rationalize the situations he creates, to give the audience a perspective on the action, the sentimentality crops out depressingly. Because of it, many moments that are supposed to be touching come close to being laughable...