Word: cynthia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Cynthia Silva '84, speaking in front of a crowd of 300, appealed to students to participate in King's election campaign for mayor. "There is no question that we should be involved in this campaign, in fact it is our responsibility to do so," she said, pointing out that the efforts of Mel King in the past have helped to increase the number of minority students attending Boston schools...
...Cannibal Galaxy, Cynthia Ozick's first full-scale novel in 17 years, comes as a welcome reminder of her commanding powers as a storyteller. Her previous book, Art and Ardor, a collection of essays published last spring, revealed her to be one of the most vigorously intellectual of contemporary American authors. Still, no other fiction writer except Isaac Bashevis Singer has succeeded so brilliantly in harnessing what Ozick has called "the steeds of myth and mysticism" in the Jewish tradition. The wonder is that her style has remained as disciplined and supple as it was in her first novel...
...contempt, he fails to recognize genius when it comes his way. Beulah Lilt, who sits immobile | and mute in the classroom, is destined to become a great artist. Poor Beulah! i A quiet, tiny child, self-immured, she seems to suffer from "an unremitting bewilderment," much like the young Cynthia Ozick, as she recalls herself. In the novel, Ozick has reserved some of her most luminous prose to endow this girl-child with tender life. Though bursting with irony and wit, The Cannibal Galaxy takes on a fearful seriousness when Ozick cites this fragment from the Talmud: "The world rests...
...culture with their heritage intact. Their loss, and the world's, of such a vast and distinctive tradition would be a tragedy. As Ozick has warned, "The annihilation of idiosyncrasy assures the annihilation of culture." But we may take heart: the sense of her commanding novel is that Cynthia Ozick has prevailed, as ever more readers are attracted by the universal appeal of her Jewishness. Hers is a triumph for the idiosyncrasy that animates all art. -By Patricia Blake
...Sometimes I feel I am a cannibal galaxy unto myself," says Cynthia Ozick, in a sweet, girlish voice. She is sipping tea on the back porch of the rambling, old-fashioned house in New Rochelle, N.Y., she shares with her husband, Attorney Bernard Hallote, and her teen-age daughter Rachel. Ozick was up most of the previous night writing, engaged in what she describes as "the fight between self and self." She explains: "Ancestrally, I stem from the Mitnagged [literally opponent] tradition, which is superrational and superskeptical. That's the part of me that writes the essays...