Word: isaac
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...items in Saturday's Crimson (April 17th) deserve comment. First, the report that Ephraim Isaac seeks redress of denial of tenure in Afro-American Studies Department seems curious, for Mr. Isaac is neither a female nor a black American and thus is not a legitimate applicant for redress through the proceedings of the EEOC. And it surely cannot be his claim that Harvard discriminates against foreigners...
...Marilyn the Wild, Jerome Char-yn's ninth novel, father questing becomes a bizarre and moving search-and-destroy mission. Isaac Sidel, the flintiest, least corrupt, most overbearing cop in New York, is a self-appointed patriarch of the Lower East Side. For 20 years he has kept his microcosm free of outside influence. But too many people now find it hard to breathe when he is around...
...Isaac's family slowly pries loose his grip on its life. His wife deserts him. His barked order no longer controls his anarchic daughter Marilyn, a Sarah Lawrence spitfire who consumes and casts off husbands. He can no longer reach his gently demented mother, who brings Arabs home to bed down in her rag shop. Isaac's brother Leo is an alimony evader who would rather stay in jail playing pinochle with his wardens than return to the streets. The cop's only solace resides in the bear hugs of Ida Stutz, the devoted fiancee who spoons...
...house of Isaac merely out of control; it is also under attack. The Lollipop Gang, a trio of teen-age terrorists, preys on Isaac's women, roughing up Ida and stalking Marilyn. A Lower East Side liberation front, the Lollipops wage a perverse holy war on Isaac's sway. The policeman's determination to keep his fief in order and the Lollipops' efforts to tear it apart are the core of this brilliantly conceived, tortuously crafted novel...
This volume is the second part of a crime-and-punishment trilogy that be gan with Blue Eyes (1974) and will be completed with the publication next fall of The Education of Patrick Silver, in which Isaac rides again. The prolific Charyn, 38, an associate professor of English at the City University of New York, also has two other works in progress, including the history of an imaginary European kingdom called Whalebone. A resourceful scavenger of story ideas, Charyn says the inspiration for the Isaac trilogy came from night mares of his brother, a homicide detective in the New York...