Word: newarks
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Roth has a genius for the comedy of entrapment. He is an uncompromising myth buster with a taste for bruising intimacy. Neil Klugman of Goodbye, Columbus and Alexander Portnoy were devoid of sentimentality and nostalgia for a lost paradise. Their Newark neighborhood had its charms, but it was basically a staging area for an assault on the sophisticated culture of New York, perhaps even London and Paris. The golden ghettos of suburbia struck them as Newarks with wall-to-wall carpeting...
Ambitious boy kicks burg is a familiar story, and central to the Zuckerman books. The Ghost Hunter (1979) introduced a young Nathan, like Roth a Newark-born writer who was hailed as the most promising voice in American letters. Zuckerman Unbound (1981) found the hero in his 30s, beleaguered by celebrity and controversy. Carnovsky, a Portnoy-like novel, had angered the community and his own family. His father's dying word to his son was "Bastard." Roth's father, a retired insurance executive, is a vigorous supporter of his son's work...
...cottage several hundred yards from the main house. "At this stage of the game I know it. I know there is no way out. You choose your prison, and I've tried to put mine in paradise." The room is neat and sparsely furnished. A worn book about Newark is at hand for reference, and a haunted Franz Kafka gazes from a prominently displayed photograph to remind the writer of paradise's alternative...
...failing to overrule the Governors of New York and New Jersey in their desire to prevent Gromyko from landing at Kennedy and Newark International Airports. Reagan opened the Unites States to heavy, and just, criticism. Besides the ethical issue of whether or not the United States is living up to its treaty responsibilities as the United Nations' host (it's not in this case), the decision to harass Gromyko makes for bad politics. It permits other countries, all too eager to find fault with Number One, conclude that the United States is taking unfair advantage of its position...
...Newark more than 20 families wrapped their faces in wet towels to save themselves from the gas raid, tied up traffic with their calls for gas masks and ambulances. In Harlem the godly gathered in prayer. Eight hundred and seventy-five panic-stricken people phoned the New York Times alone. St. Michael's Hospital, Newark, treated 15 people for shock. A man called the Dixie Bus Terminal, shouting "The World is coming to an end and I've got a lot to do!" In Providence frightened townsfolk demanded that the electric company black out the city to save...