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...called underclass. David Ellwood, a Harvard authority on welfare, figures that a quarter of all AFDC recipients have received benefits, off and on, for ten years or more; at any one time they constitute a startling 60% of all recipients. The rise of illegitimate births, especially among ghetto teenagers, has probably done more to turn middle-class Americans against AFDC than anything else...
ROTH IS A person divided, and the cause of this schism in his personality shouldn't surprise the reader. In writing about the life of Jews in the U.S., Roth confronts head on his own split between his origins in a Jewish ghetto in New Jersey and the urbane literary worldliness that he has now developed. The Counterlife doesn't stray far from its literary antecedents set in and around Newark, New Jersey, but there is a sense that Roth is uprooted...
Unsatisfied with the cushy life of the modern Jewish ghetto, the brothers Zuckerman look for something new. Roth equates life in the New York City metropolitan area with impotency, and the brothers' quest is tied up with their effort to regain their potency. It seems as if circumcision, even at eight days old, leaves lasting scars...
Little Shop's Faustian dilemma emerges when the plant wants something in return: blood. Named "Audrey II" by Seymour in honor of his dreamboat, the wisecracking, ghetto-smart plant (whose booming voice is performed by Levi Stubbs of the Four Tops) bellows "Feed me!" to the cringing Krelborn. How he deals with this unusual request is the problem of Little Shop...
...past, black children have generally been neglected by publishers, but this year brings two outstanding compensations. In Cherries and Cherry Pits (Greenwillow; $11.75), Vera B. Williams introduces Bidemmi, a gifted young black girl who draws a world of apartments and subway stops and ghetto / streets. With her felt-tip pens and knowledgeable left hand, Bidemmi gives those scenes an optimistic glow, heightened by a metaphor: cherry pits. Everyone in the neighborhood, including a pet parrot, eats cherries. The seeds are scattered in the hope that one day there will be a whole orchard on Bidemmi's block, with harvest enough...