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ing the shots and doing at nearly every move what he pleased- until
the silence from Lyautey about Morocco that must have been rather
a kick in the teeth, and with the continuing exception in the so dif–
ferent sphere of his hope to found his own order.
Both in Beni-Abbes and later in Tam he kept sending out ap–
peals for like-minded believers- or fellow-nuts, some would say (and
some in French ecclesiastical circles did say)- to share his regime of
utmost privation, in one of the least luxuriant spots on earth. His
friends the White Fathers finally turned up a young novice crazy
enough to accept the challenge, but whether because he was literally
crazy or for some other reason, the arrangement soon blew up. Fa–
ther de Foucauld would die absolutely alone, in his courage, in his
folly, and in his faith, leaving traces that refused to disappear and
would finally blow into the semblance of an order after all.
Eleanor Clark's most recent work,
Tamrart: Thirteen Days in the
Desert,
is forthcoming.
Nathan Glazer
JEWISH INTELLECTUALS
One of the ways of participating in the celebration of the
fiftieth anniversary of
Partisan Review
suggested by the editor was to
submit something from one's current work. When the time came to
respond to this invitation I was working on an essay on the relation–
ship between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism, another on the ques–
tion of the nature of American Jewish political influence on Ameri–
can policy-making.
Neither of them seemed suitable for
Partisan Review.
And it
