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Rothberg's anti-hero is Jacob Nissim, a veritable Aryan in appearance-blond, crew cut, blue eyes, short straight nose-but in experience perhaps too pat a symbol of Jewish suffering and persecution. A product of the Warsaw ghetto, Nissim escapes at 13 from the cattle car that is...
In gist, Marat/Sade shows Sade's little company reenacting the death of the Revolutionary leader Jean-Paul Marat at the hand of the Royalist Charlotte Corday, before a stage audience of Charenton's director and his lady. But the murder is strung out by the philosophical intrusions of Sade, who...
As the burly, unblinking Tsafendas sat in the dock, his head bobbing, his lips forming soundless words, the experts described him as a schizophrenic haunted by the obsession that a tapeworm was coiled up inside his stomach, gnawing and cutting him to pieces. Over the past 30 years, they added...
A Sense of Play. What is needed, he suggests, is more laughter among parents, children and teachers, since laughter "opens pathways to the discovering spirit," produces "a shared understanding," and "like love, it demands response." He argues that in their obsession with work, Americans have lost their "sense of play...
Much of the damage to China's position has been done by Mao's inflexibility. The puritanism and self-hypnosis that were born on the Long March and nurtured in the caves of Yenan have become an obsession. Aging and ailing, Mao now insists on seeing his philosophy...