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When some of them took the bait, Roth went even further. Nathan Zuckerman, the narrator of The Ghost Writer (1979), seems identical to Roth in everything from his vocation (writer) and faith (Jewish) to his Newark childhood. (Tarnapol at least grew up in the Bronx.) What is more, Zuckerman is facing the same dilemma that Roth did, with considerable attendant publicity early in his career; he has been accused of writing a story involving misbehaving Jews that, other Jews claim, will confirm anti-Semitic prejudices in Gentile readers...
After a short celebration, elated committee members—Houghton, Gray, Gagnon, and Stone—Summers and University spokesperson Joe Wrinn piled into a convoy of chauffeured sedans and raced for Newark airport. There awaited Houghton’s private Corning jet, ready to whisk them to Cambridge and a scheduled 5:30 p.m. press conference to announce to the world that Summers would be the 27th president of Harvard University...
...Perhaps the constant traveling to see each other gave Benjie the idea for his proposal. Keren was flying to Newark, N.J. on a Thursday to meet some friends in New York on Friday. They arranged to meet on Friday, but Benjie had ideas of his own. He found out her flight details and waited at her gate in the Newark airport on Thursday...
WORRY All the way from Newark to Dallas I worry. I worry about my job. I worry about money. I worry about my family - all the usual stuff that just seems to build up regardless of what I do. We layover in Dallas, I make some phone calls back east, and it doesn't help - the wall of worry is still lingering at the fringes and pestering me just for spite. We take off again out of Dallas and head north over Kansas and the heartland before hitting some serious Rockies...
...Contrast this with the Dallas or Newark airports, which sprawl for miles and miles and require their own mass transit systems to navigate. Things seem to be looking up. My feeble credit card thankfully is not declined and I am actually able to get my car without an incredible battle, a confusing and enraging argument, or some unexpected monstrous charge. They just run my card and give me the keys and directions how to get to West Yellowstone. Unbelievable...