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...millions, perhaps one. perhaps three-nobody could count how many. The orchestra and chorus of Buenos Aires' Colón Opera House were on hand to sing Peronist hymns; kites bearing Perón's image flew overhead, and from the massive crowd came the chant: "Wake up, be happy! Our general is coming home...
...that his Israeli companions could point out the sights. Later, he was taken to Yad Vashem, a solemn memorial to Jews killed by the Nazis. Standing near such names as Auschwitz, Dachau, Buchenwald, spelled out in English and Hebrew on the memorial's floor, Brandt heard the cantor chant: "Let the Lord remember the souls of our brethren ... who were put to death, and who were killed and choked, and who were buried alive." As Brandt wordlessly moved to lay a wreath against the "Tomb of the Martyrs' Ashes," a look of anguish passed over his face...
...just been piped to us at a deafening level, the kid in front of me with the baseball cap began loudly to taunt the center-fielder with the ageless imputation that he bit the dust. This convinced me that all was well -- until he worked into his next chant: a TV commentator imitation...
SIMILAR May Day scenes were played out on the streets of other Western European cities. In Paris, young leftists paraded through a pelting rain. "Down with the army!" they chanted, until they joined up with some inhospitable union members at the Place de l'Hôtel-de-Ville. A window broke, fists flew, and the chant quickly changed to "Oh, les nouveaux flics [Oh, the new cops]!" In Milan, young people marched under banners that spelled out what they regard as Italy's current evils: IMPERIALISM, FASCISM, CAPITALIST OPPRESSORS...
...landmark in American comic writing, Portnoy is not the final assimilation of the American Jewish novel. It is a complete cannibalization of it into the American Jewish anti-novel. Isaac Singer may continue to write marvelous stories about immigrant Jews; Saul Bellow may continue to chant the prayer for the dead over our decaying cities. But it is doubtful that anyone can ever write about the American Jewish family again without having his work ruefully compared with Portnoy's grotesque shadow...