Word: newark
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Newark conversations began long before I arrived there. They started months in advance as I discussed my summer plans with college friends over dining hall tables, and continued as I convinced my parents to let me to live in a city more famous for burning its neighborhoods than for rebuilding them...
...brick house on a treelined street in Newark, N.J., is impeccable: the iron fence gleams with fresh black paint; the emerald grass looks newly mowed. Inside, the carefully arranged furnishings glow as if purchased yesterday. Everything in the Paliz family home is a reflection of hard work and pride in accomplishment, especially the Palizes themselves...
...honors track, that is. Bismarck, aptly called Bizzy by friends, was valedictorian at his middle school, and is contending for that honor next June at Science High School, one of Newark's "magnet" schools. He is a star player on the school's math and chemistry teams, and is so computer-savvy that the union pension and benefit fund where his mother works pays him $15 an hour after school to solve technical problems. He may not need the money for college, though. Even before he had thought about applying, he won a $40,000 scholarship to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute...
...Jewish man from Newark, N.J., achieves worldly success and happiness only to have his life ruined by his deranged daughter. That is the central story of Philip Roth's American Pastoral (1997), which earlier this year was awarded a Pulitzer Prize. Now comes Roth's I Married a Communist (Houghton Mifflin; 323 pages; $26), which portrays a Jewish man from Newark, N.J., who achieves worldly success and happiness, only to have his life ruined by a deranged stepdaughter. Anyone who thinks these two plots are too similar to justify separate novels probably has not been paying attention to Roth...
...early '50s, the era of Red baiting and McCarthyism in the U.S., when communists, actual or accused, were hounded into disgrace and unemployment or jail. One of them, according to Roth's novel, was Iron Rinn, ne Ira Ringold, a gangly (6-ft. 6-in.) son of Newark who had circuitously risen, after his military service during World War II, to become a prominent radio actor in Manhattan. Ira's new fame brings rewards. He marries Eve Frame, a one-time star of silent films, then Broadway and now radio, and moves into her elegant Greenwich Village townhouse, where Sylphid...