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...group defiantly insists that the American Jewish struggle for identity must be maintained. Damn right they're serious, and not overly so, in their own minds. For every Christmas tree that goes up, they demand that a menorah be stationed next to it. Perhaps this group was responsible for the announcement in the Mather Memo of the impending donation of an electric menorah to the dining hall. I didn't know whether to laugh...
...find myself in a third group. I'm disturbed by Christmas trees on my "territory" (e.g., the dining hall); I'm angered by electric menorah; I'm annoyed with Hanakkah for trying to compete with Christmas; and I'm upset with myself for being so upset. Our problem is compounded by Christians who act as though their rights are violated by those of us who are nervous about the Holiday Spirit. They are trying to enjoy one of the richest aspects of their tradition, and apparently a few of us who are left out are intent upon spoiling...
...tree in my dining hall. This tree does not give me a feeling of happiness at an approaching holiday--it gives me the feeling that I am once again forgotten and excluded from a part of a University that has become my home. I do not want a paper menorah hanging next to the Christmas tree--I am not in favor of the commercialization of my holiday or of the tokenism this involves. I feel that there should not be any decorations connected specifically with any religious group in public sections of this University. I hope that in the future...
...swamped and reduced to little islands of comic vignettes in the two novels that followed--is back on center stage where it belongs. Roth uses it to light up his portrait of the archtypal American male Jew. It's as if Roth is sending up a nine-foot menorah in the middle of Fourth of July fireworks, a dazzling display of verbal pyrotechnics and ethnic humor...
...existence often seems to hang upon little more than society's fragile agreement to pursue and uphold such imperfect payments and restraints as the law allows. In the process of tracing out the perplexities of just one claim, British Suspense Novelist Lionel Davidson (The Rose of Tibet, The Menorah Men) has created an odd, quiet novel that contemplates the limits of private responsibility and public guilt...