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...title indicates, this latest volume in the trilogy about the author Nathan Zuckerman--who no doubt is modeled somewhat after Roth--is a story about opposing lives. First there is the opposition between Nathan and his brother Henry, a successful suburban dentist in South Orange, New Jersey. Then there is the counterlife that Henry decides to live in Israel and the counterlife that Nathan decides to live in England. The interaction between these various worlds and people provides the canvas on which Roth paints his vision of his Jewishness...
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...
Although Tackle Jim Burt danced last week with the customers (whether they were from New Jersey or New York), most of the Giant veterans have shown a restraint born of hard times. End George Martin says, "The defense we've played the past two weeks has been so incredible, Harry Carson and I keep thinking we're going to wake up and be 3-12-1 again." Elway's less lionized counterpart, Phil Simms, 30, still refers to "the anxiety of being a Giant. Jeez, it's been hanging over our heads for so long. The distant past, the recent...
While the Giants (16-2) terrorized the league from the season's second game, the Broncos (13-5) at one stretch went ten weeks without a two-game winning or losing streak. Only a couple of months ago, the Giants and Broncos met in New Jersey, and New York won on a Martin interception, 19-16. "Their pass defense was terrific," said Simms. "I hate playing teams with terrific pass defenses." Of Elway, Taylor mused, "I sure hope we don't have to face him again." If everyone is right, and the Giants win their first world championship...
Some employers have come to believe that pregnancy leaves may pay off in the long run. Merck & Co., a New Jersey-based drug firm, grants an average of six weeks of paid pregnancy leave and an additional six months of unpaid personal leave if desired. "You can't close your eyes to the fact that the work force has totally changed," says Arthur Strohmer Jr., the company's executive director of human resources. "Increasingly, entrants are women of childbearing age and working mothers. You have to make some adaptations to that pool of talent if only to stay in business...