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...describes his Newark childhood in warm, elegiac terms that completely invert the cramped, maddening domesticity endured by Alexander Portnoy: "Our lower- middle-class neighborhood of houses and shops -- a few square miles of tree-lined streets at the corner of the city bordering on residential Hillside and semi-industrial Irvington -- was as safe and peaceful a haven for me as his rural community would have been for an Indiana farm...
...have created for themselves. The novel's homebase is this world. Nathan lives in New York City and his brother in South Orange, a suburb of Newark, where the two brothers grew up. Roth has written about these places before. His first great novel, Goodbye, Columbus, takes place in Irvington, New Jersey, a city that borders on Newark. Roth himself grew up in Newark and Irvington...
Many communities, of course, have outstanding programs, including Arlington, Va., Baltimore, and Irvington, N.J. Teaching can be impressively broad, running from kindergarten through twelfth grade and based on developmental psychology, emphasizing assertiveness training, the mechanics of decision making and assigned essays on topics like sex in the media...
...spiritual leader of the Unification Church must still spend a month and a half as a resident of the Oxford Project, an inmate-rehabilitation center in Brooklyn, N.Y. Waving to reporters but refusing to comment as he emerged from prison, Moon, 65, was whisked to his estate in Irvington, N.Y., where he spent the day with his family and church officials, one of whom complained, "The fact that he is still not liberated is frustrating." Moon is free to resume his religious work, though, as long as he is tucked in at Oxford every night...
...nine varsity quarterbacks at the beginning of the season, Gizzi earned the starting job halfway through the year. He proceeded to lead Harvard to a 4-0-1 finish and its second consecutive Ivy co-championship. The Irvington, N.Y. native completed over 56 percent of his passes for 729 yards and rushed for 212 yards...