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...could read Sabbath's Theater as Roth's backlash, a Mamet-like refutation of P.C. feminism. But that would be missing the point. Roth never comes close to defending Sabbath. He only hopes to render the man--his "primal emotions and indecent language and careful, complex sentences"--in such high relief that, try as we might, we cannot despise him. When Sabbath is booted out of his puppetry professorship at a local college, Roth sees fit to include, as a foot-note, a lengthy transcript of the offending teacher-student phone sex episode. This is only Roth the provacateur, daring...
Yigal Amir's ideas, if not his plans, were shared widely enough on the far right to amply justify a public backlash. Says Rabbi Sholomo Aviner, head of a religious school in Jerusalem: "The students would ask the question--like they were asking what food should be eaten on the Sabbath--'Is it O.K. under Torah law to kill the Prime Minister?' Everyone was talking violence. There were hundreds like Amir...
...backlash has also thrown the more respectable opponents of Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank on the defensive. Rabin's widow Leah has repeatedly accused Likud, the chief opposition party, and its leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, of tolerating, if not helping to whip up, the climate of violence that felled her husband. Netanyahu, in a telephone interview with TIME, responded with uncharacteristic mildness. "If the left can draw a distinction between moderate and extreme Palestinians," he said, "at least they could do the same for our own people...
Golle says many of the criticisms are the inevitable backlash from unions and city government. "There are a whole bunch of people who like it just the way it is and would prefer that people believe that we've not been successful--when in fact we have." And it is true that some officials would like to continue the EAI experiment. Baltimore schools superintendent Walter Amprey says the company has cleaned up some of the schools, maintained appropriate class sizes and promoted healthy competition to provide better school services...
...person that carried it out, might have thought he would bring about a new government," said Michael M. Rosen '99. "All that he's done is created a backlash against the right-wing and de-legitimized its causes...