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Mr. Chips vs. Travis Bickle

Robert DeNiro as Travis Bickle       I continue here my discussion of three works that just happened to come together during one evening last week: John Updike’s novel Terrorist, Martin Scorcese’s film Taxi Driver, and George Bernard Shaw’s play Arms and the Man. My question is whether Shaw’s humanism is a sufficient answer to the undercurrent […]

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Updike’s Anatomy of a Terrorist

Last Thursday night I had an overbooked schedule.  I was moderating a book club at the local public library on John Updike’s 2006 novel Terrorist (at 7 p.m.).  I was in charge of a talkback following a college production of George Bernard Shaw’s Arms and the Man (at 8 p.m.).  And I was screening Martin Scorcese’s […]

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