Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some respects, The Professor of Desire recalls Roth's earlier, most sensationalistic and best-known novel, Portnoy's Complaint. The plots of both books are quite similar-two bright, young Jewish men who have an overwhelming obsession with sex. The Professor of Desire, however, is much more sophisticated and accomplished. While David first appears in the book as a brash, precocious adolescent, he develops and matures throughout the course of the novel, whereas Portnoy's Complaint is the story of retarded adolescence. The explicitness and concern with sexual identity remain in The Professor of Desire but Roth is less intent...
Unlike Portnoy's Complaint, David's Jewishness is a minor motif. Although he treats David's childhood, growing up in his father's Jewish resort hotel, humorously, Roth is not interested in painting the expose of American Jewish life that he did in Portnoy's Complaint. Judaism is mainly a symbol. The Jew as an exile and survivor is used in conjunction with Roth's depiction of the ceaseless quest for love which, when found, fades only for the search to be renewed. As one of David's students writes in an essay: "The search for intimacy, not because...
...more congenial setting for discussion than an office. In many companies, the expense account is also a perk for executives who have earned at least limited discretion over how they spend their time and the company's money. Manhattan Public Relations Man John Scanlon makes a wry complaint: "It took me all my life to get into the eating class, and now they want to take it away from...
...disclosures by its own columnist, William Safire. His relentless scrutiny of Lance's loans and insinuations about possible conflict of interests prompted Senator Abraham Ribicoff to complain on July 25 that Lance was being "smeared from one end of the country to the other," a complaint that Ribicoff later retracted. The Times tried to catch up with Safire, but produced a stream of speculative, melodramatic stories. On Aug. 15, for instance, the Times described how relations had cooled between Carter and Lance, but failed to mention that the President had invited his Budget Director over to play tennis only...
Does Lance deserve all that continued scrutiny? "The coverage amounts to overkill only if nothing comes of it," answers Robert Early, assistant managing editor of the Arizona Republic. Even in that increasingly unlikely event, Lance has small grounds for complaint. Most allegations against him still stand. Moreover, even in those periods when the daily Lance installments began to run thin, they served to keep the very important question of his competence before the public...