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...Japan, in Elizabethan England, and in North America, where St. Isaac Jogues was tomahawked by the Iroquois?and where the British put prices on Jesuit heads...
...music is mostly mediocre. Some of it, like that of Isaac Hayes, who breathes out his lyrics like Holy Writ, is clumsy and pretentious. Rufus Thomas is the only one who really makes things work. He performs Funky Chicken, strutting smartly about the stage splendidly attired in shocking-pink cape with matching shirt and Bermuda shorts and white vinyl boots as if he will never come home to roost. It is a performance of ebullient self-parody, one that the kids in the stadium seem to enjoy...
...whom are not from Harvard--have little knowledge of how the normal Harvard bureaucracy operates. They have been unable to use the additional influence the new Faculty legislation gives them. Further, it would be disloyal for many Afro faculty members to oppose Guinier for with the exceptions of Ephraim Isaac and Azinna Nwafor '63, the chairman brought every one of them to Harvard...
...particularly Jewish sensibility in literature," and he dislikes the chronological and ethnic limitations critics try to apply to the literary scene. 'There are many Jewish writers, but they have varying sensibilities," he says. "They have a lot in common, but nor necessarily psychologically. Writers like Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, Isaac Bashevis Singer and I share some subject matter, and for one reason or another we're inspired to use it. And subject matter is something so delicate, so vulnerable, that every writer would give his eye-teeth to find the perfect materials to respond to creatively, not with a stereotyped...
Kotlowitz means to recover the moments of profound transition, when the Jewish life of Eastern Europe began to be borne forward into the 20th century. Other writers-most notably Isaac Bashevis Singer-have handled this familiar theme with more versatility, more dramatic elan. Not all of the novel is totally alive, but Kotlowitz writes extraordinarily well at times. His act of conjuration is clear-eyed, without a trace of sentimentality...