THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, September 14, 1962 — 30
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Language Miracle, World Religions, Birch Issue Among New Paperbacks
First published by Beacon
Press under the title "Questions
That Matter Most, Asked by the
World's Religions," Fawcett
Publications have issued as a
paperback "The Great Religions
by Which Men Live," by Floyd H.
Ross and Tynette Hills.
In the section on Semitic Re-
ligions, the authors have de-
voted 18 pages to a discussion
of Judaism.
Other religions explained in
this paperback are: Christianity,
Islam, Brahmanic Hinduism,
Buddhism, Chinese religions
(Taoism, Confucianism, Non-
coercion and Way of Natural-
ness, Way of Harmony and Pro-
priety), Shinto — Religion of
Japan.
An introductory essay pre-
ceding the religious evaluations
declares that "because men
everywhere have found that the
meaningful life was a goal of
all people, they have developed
religions to help them decide
what is really important." A
concluding chapter, "Toward
Richer Living," declares that
"all of us must become teach-
able citizens of One World" and
that humanity's true oneness
teaches that "Divinity is round
us—never gone."
Language as "the handmaiden
of culture," the development of
words, the part of the Hebrew
Lashon in the emergence of tire
means of communication to-
gether with other languages,
are described in "The Miracle
of Language," by Charlton
Laird, issued as a paperback by
Fawcett Publications.
"By a curious combination of
linguistic descent," Laird states,
"geographic propinquity, and
political hegemony, most of the
English language has been bor-
rowed from within the Indo-
European language family, the
same family from which its na-
tive words come. There are ex-
ceptions, of course. A few
worlds like camel and many
proper names like Elihu have
Sidney Sulkin's Novel, 'Family
Man,' Powerful Evaluation
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Boston-born Sidney Sulkin,
who now makes his home in
Washington as senior editor of
Kiplinger's Changing Times
Magazine, has made his home
town of Boston the scene for
most of the action in his novel,
"The Family Man," which has
been published by Robert B.
Luce of Washington and is be-
ing distributed by David McKay
Co. (119 W. 40th, NY18).
It is a well-written novel,
with many incidents dated in
various periods from 1931 to
1951, incorporating experience
that will be envisioned as ap-
plicable to such a great degree
to many of the readers them-
selves that the narrative will
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hold their attention to the very
end.
The reality of the story, its
naturalness, makes it so impres-
sive. The man who is at the
center of the tale and who
heads and often dominates The
Family — Harry Allman — is a
simple man. Yet he emerges
typical of many a father who,
while seeking the best for his
children, rules over them and
desires to be The Boss.
Harry Allman is a business
man. His quest for success is
gratified, but not without
struggle. His first partnership
ends in tragedy—for his partner
who, abandoned by Allman,
commits suicide. Then come
successes. His son joins him in
the business and when he tries
to emulate his methods Harry
manages again to exercise boss-
ism.
The story of this family man
is not without its pathos. Harry,
having sired three sons and a
daughter, cools towards his
wife and finds etra-marital
friendship in a love affair which
later ends in the illness of his
girl friend and her passing. His
home life, however, is never
broken up.
Throughout the tale, the
reader meets the children as
well as the father — in their
various escapades, their crav-
ings for certain professions,
one son's decision to become a
rabbi never materializing be-
cause he dies while in service
in France during the last war.
There are infatuations and
infidelities, but the family is
held intact.
One of the sons, at one time
having become involved with a
leftist group, now a university
teacher, is called in for a se-
curity inquiry. This portion of
the book—towards the end—is
its most effective. David All-
man, believing he will save his
father difficulties because he
has secured government con-
tracts, yields to the inquisitors
and lists the names of those
who were associated with him
in the leftist group 12 years
earlier. But when he tried to
read into the record a state-
ment that neither he nor those
he listed ever were communists,
the meeting is suddenly called
to a halt. It is a pathetic expe-
perience, and the novelist de-
scribes it brilliantly.
Sulkin by the same token
gives an excellent account also
of the father's reactions when
he learns that once again he
has emerged the ruler of the
family. His novel has real power
in its evaluation of "The Fam-
ily Man."
The University of Michigan
Undergraduate Library records
some 1,500,000 visitors in a
year's time.
come from Hebrew through the
Bible and through the long
Christian tradition; a few other
Hebrew words came through
Yiddish, although Yiddish stems
from • Indo-European through
Old High German, and acquired
its Hebraic elements by borrow-
ing."
Describing "the speech that
blooms on the tongue," the au-
thor points out that "even uni-
versities did not teach the study
of early English languages; La-
tin, Greek, and Hebrew were
either the marks of a gentle-
man or the tools of a divine, but
relatively few scholars bother
with Anglo-Saxon or Middle
English."
Laird's adventure with words
and his analyses of languages
and their developments make
his "Miracle of Languages" a
most interesting and very in-
structive book.
lieve in devils? The truth, he
says, is that he aims "Merely at
Jews, by distributing Hart's making them nasty."
Economic Council anti-Semitic
leaflets!
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Included among the newest
paperbacks is the reprint of a
classic, "The Screwtape Letters
and Screwtape Proposes a
Toast," by C. S. Lewis, pub-
lished by Macmillan (60 5th,
NY 11). When first published,
500,000 copies were sold in the
U. S. alone. The paperback has
a new preface by the author,
explaining the idea of letter-
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The machinations of the John
Birch Society, the fact that
"Robert H. W. Welch Jr. never
forgets there is a Communist
conspiracy," the group's tactics
of attacking President Eisen-
hower and maligning Chief Jus-
tice Earl Warren, is exposed in
a Fawcett Publications paper-
back.
Gene Grove exposes the Birch
Society and its chief manipula-
tors in "Inside the John Birch
Society." It is an authoritative
book on what the society stands
for and how it functions. It
shows how its meetings have
been utilized by anti-Semites for
the spread of venom against
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