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Bible's first shepherd, slain by brother Cain, a jealous tiller of the soil. As a stand-in for St. Christopher, the bearer of the young Christ, Tiffauges must carry Tournier's most cumbersome load. This is the burden of innocence, the surprisingly heavy weight of the holy child, who is shouldered above the flood but also protects his carrier from sin and danger...
...Ogre, in contrast with his last book, Friday, Tournier seems incapable of expressing an idea without sacrificing art to pedagogy. As an old East Prussian aristocrat says just before the Russians do a Götterdammerung on his castle, "When the symbol devours the thing symbolized, when the cross-bearer becomes the crucified, when a malign inversion overthrows phoria, then the end of the world is at hand...
...simpler (and cheaper) method is to buy false documents that entitle the bearer to a legitimate deferment. There are papers available for a price saying that one's father has been killed by the Viet Cong or that one is the only remaining son in a family. A mother who has lost her only son in combat may sell his identity papers to a willing customer. One 19-year-old bought the papers of a 14-year-old; he beat the draft but wound up back in elementary school...
...during last year's freeze. Last week, though, the President's Cost of Living Council (COLC) got a warning that rising meat prices, especially of beef, could by themselves foil Nixon's desire to lower the inflation rate to 3% by year's end. The bearer of those bad tidings was C. Jackson Grayson, chairman of the Price Commission, who, in a memo, urged the Administration seriously to consider putting meat on the hoof under price regulation. His concern, though not his conclusion, was echoed by Herbert Stein, chairman of the President's Council...
...rally. Mobutu said that his onetime close friend Malula "must no longer be Archbishop of Kinshasa." Last week the situation seemed to ease somewhat. Zaïre's ruling party ordered that African names are henceforth required, but noted that new identity cards would also carry the bearer's baptismal name in small print. Meanwhile, the Vatican announced a new rite for adult Christian baptism that provided that future converts could keep their indigenous names rather than take those of saints...