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A golden couple in a golden time, the Levovs rise effortlessly on an unbreaking wave of postwar prosperity. They move to a 160-year-old stone house in one of the Garden State's classiest exurbs. There Mary Dawn breeds prize cattle on a 17-acre homestead and rears daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: WHEN SHE WAS BAD | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

Grumpy might have been safer. Old Country Jews believed that acknowledging good fortune would attract an evil eye, a kineahora. Roth brings this useful superstition home when, as a teenager, the Merry Levov contracts a lethal case of '60s political self-righteousness. She blows up the town's general store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: WHEN SHE WAS BAD | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

This moral lunacy is dramatized with the piercing common sense that characterizes both Roth's funniest and soberest works. "The world is not a place on which I have influence or wish to have any," says Merry through a veil, a safety net for microbes. Swede's reply cries out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: WHEN SHE WAS BAD | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

At first I was just happy that I got to take my Cinnabon and be on my merry way much sooner. However, something about the incident kept bothering me, and I began to reply it over and over in my mind on the way home. Finally, it struck me: I...

Author: By Corinne E. Funk, | Title: Adulthood and Other Nightmares | 4/21/1997 | See Source »

Harvard's decisions in paying its employees market wages stem from the University's priority on education, said Merry Touborg, spokesperson for the University.

Author: By Jay S. Kimmelman, | Title: Harvard Custodial Pay at Market Rate, But Many Schools Offer More | 4/4/1997 | See Source »

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