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...depth of achievement, paints a colorful articulation, a true and honest portrait of the American Jew. It is positive, yet critical. As a matter of fact, you too have captured the Jewish quality that you so aptly summarized in the last paragraph: ". . . it is sharp humor, often directed at oneself...
...bones and living all out in the present; it is Job's chutzpah as well as his submission to God; it is the lingering melancholy which the 12th century writer Judah Halevi called the "aching heart of nations," and it is sharp humor, often directed at oneself. For all his changes, the American Jew has not lost these qualities; in fact he is making them, more than ever, a gift to the world...
...rebels against mediocrity but tells himself he is "too mediocre to think of beauty." His blood boils with desire, "very strong desire that knocks about everything, zigzagging, starved, steeped in pride and filth," but he follows his impulses only in dreams. In the end, says Quinte, "one finds oneself with all those others, those terrible others, who resemble each other and whom I resemble, and who also resemble infinite tatters...
...this consumer-oriented, overproductive country, slick magazines, huge stores and singing commercials are a never-ending encouragement to stuff oneself. Hence the majority of Americans are overweight...
...dramatized the supremely thinkable, demonic fantasies of fear and courage, of ambition, of aggression and virility that serve as fodder for the dreams of futile men. He tells of suppressed obsessions, impulses not acted out quite, but lived on the edge of, destruction of the malignant in oneself, in what one loves, suicide and murder. Mostly, perhaps he tells of intercourse, intercourse with oceanic climax, coming in waves not of love, but of something between lust and pure aestheticism. All of the sex is magnificent, art, but written with the bristle of one who has also known...