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...very small place. Rumblings of the Congo's struggle for independence from Belgium--and U.S. plotting to assassinate Patrice Lumumba, the new nation's first Prime Minister--are distant thunder in Kingsolver's tale. Her story, a symbolic parallel to the national upheaval, takes place in an isolated village. Nathan Price, an evangelical Baptist preacher, fanaticism in bitter parody, lugs his wife, daughters and rigid preconceptions to Kilanga, a small jungle settlement, where faith plays out as farce. To the hospitable but puzzled tribesmen, he rails against nakedness and multiple wives, and he insists on river baptisms though crocodiles lurk...
Finally, homosexuality tends to lower population and thus could be an incredibly useful tool in the modern social context. Perhaps it is time that the essentially anachronistic practice of heterosexual monogamy disappear. NATHAN W. HILL...
...narrative toreadors are his brother,Murray Ringold, and Nathan Zuckerman, Roth'sperennial almost-autobiographer. Sitting onZuckerman's deck, burning a citronella candle,they talk, for six nights, about Ira. In the firstthird of the book, the plot of Ira's life has beensketched, and what follows is Murray and Zuckermanunpacking. Murray utters his six-night fractalintensification of detail, and Zuckerman listens,rapt to elderly Murray's deposition on his deathbrother. as a teenager, Zuckerman had taken Ira onas a mentor, and Roth is at his most interestingwhen he illustrates the knee-jerk memories evokedin Zuckerman by Murray's revelations...
Likewise, Nathan Glazer, professor emeritus ofeducation and social structure, said he supportsthe use of affirmative action policies inuniversities--but not in the workplace...
Styperek next dominated Illinois player Nathan Zeder in the quarterfinals. The straight set victory included a 6-0 second set and marked the first time Styperek had defeated his familiar rival...