Word: levins
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...moving treatment in his widely acclaimed novel Night, and most recently, William Styron examined the trauma of a mother forced to determine the fate of her children in Sophie's Choice. It should come as no surprise therefore that as a Jewish initiate into the world of fiction, Sheila Levin attempts to join the ranks of the guilt-ridden with her first novel, Simple Truths...
...Levin makes a noble and marginally successful attempt to deal with a somewhat hackneyed subject in a unique and sensitive manner. Instead of focusing on the survivors themselves and their inability to go on living, Simple Truths explores the plight of the descendants of holocaust survivors and how the legacy of guilt destroys their lives as well. Susan Warner, the novel's protagonist, is the daughter of two concentration camp survivors. Her father escaped death by working as a camp physician, a fact which Susan's mother, an embittered and vengeful woman, takes pleasure in tormenting him with. Neither...
...mood on campus is one of shock and great surprise." Keith Levin, provost and vice president for academic affairs at Millersville, said yesterday. "This is a genuine phenomenon. The man obviously managed to perpetuate the fantastic hoax...
...Levin explained that when the college first hired "Pearse," it received a document from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland certifying the degrees he claimed to have. "We've since located the real Dr. Pearse at the University of British Columbia," Levin said...
...beating all new weapons into food stamps. "Our emphasis is not on where we can cut, but where we can replace with something more cost effective," says Democratic Senator Gary Hart of Colorado, one of the group's founders. Among the leading members are Democratic Senators Carl Levin of Michigan...