Word: isaacsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they pleased, within economic limits, whether or not times were propitious. If their sins afflicted their children, so did those of their parents afflict them. They were only a generation away from the experience of pogroms, and their mother and father still reeked with the hate Cossacks aroused. "The Isaacson" Communism was composed of articles of faith; they used it as a way to feel superior to the world, rather than as a basis for social change, But their right to keep faith with it was earned in sweet and suffering, and it was not at all clear to Daniel...
Paul and Rochelle Isaacson are initially repellent. Except for a raw sexuality which actually cements their marriage, they are intellectually self-conscious without being intellectually independent; they adhere to CP ideology in a manner which restricts their ability to live constructively' even though in their own eyes it is what saves them from being victims of U.S, capitalism. They place their hope in the Marxist ideal of classless society without possessing Marz`s Knowledge of how that ideal must take root in a specific historical content. They join with the religion of Sovietism, and subscribe to the irrelevant mystique...
Slowly, However, we do gain compassion. The Daniel who narrates the book is a married Columbia graduate student, guilt-ridden, sick of his bourgeois complacency; his tensions surface in offbeat sexual acts and professional inertia. His sister feels she keeps the political flame of the Isaacsons alive by participating in Radcliffe radicalism; she acts with confident reflex, but she lacks a real family and when her brother and certain radical friends do not co-operate to form a revolutionary foundation with an Isaacson trust fund, she begins to crack. Her attempt at suicide in a Howard Johnson's wash room...
Rathborne was elected from a field of four candidates. Also elected were Winthrop Minot '73 as vice president and Walter Isaacson '74 as secretary...
...they've scored ten goals in the last three games. Sophomore Ed Austin, at left inside, leads the team in scoring with 8 goals and 5 assists, but the main scoring threat should come from the right side where freshman Tom Moore (5 goals, 4 assists) and sophomore Bob Isaacson (6 goals, 4 assists) are interchangable at inside and wing...