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The Jewbird tells of a talking bird named Schwartz, who flies into the Lower East Side apartment of Salesman Harry Cohen, seeking refuge from the "anti-Semeets" (eagles, vultures and hawks who pick out the eyes of other birds). Schwartz settles down, helps Cohen's small son with his...
It is the same diabolic Moeris, leader of the Council of Regency, leader of the vote for death and of those who would shield their dead, who tells Clytemnestra: "See: all is well. / It is the tournament of open minds / That settles things." "And patience," adds the court poet Aegon...
In his first hour on the job last week, Teacher Novak confronted a "typical" U.S. high school. While hordes of undisciplined adolescents rush about to the beat of jazz music, a flock of frightened new teachers get a speech from the principal (Dean Jagger). Never get "personal" with students, says...
Wallace dispatches a team of anthropologists and wives to study the perfect sexual harmony that exists among 200 noble savages on the Three Sirens islands. The islanders all seem to have read Choctaw editions of Havelock Ellis and orate in stiff English on the wonders of coeducational outhouses ("the one...
A similar melting away occurs in the author's new novel, but what dwindles in this case is the reader's sanity. At first, all seems expert and ordinary. A novelist hears of the death of the eccentric owner of an Austrian castle whom he knew 30 years...