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...Harvard men's swimming team trounced Brown, 69-26, in Providence, R.I., to lift its Ivy League record to 4-2. The rout was as pleasant as it was unexpected, leading the aquamen to seriously contemplate an Eastern Seaboard Championship...
...part snake-oil salesman. It was the second ingredient that gave some Democrats pause about the new House Speaker's delivering the party's response to Ronald Reagan's State of the Union address. But Wright was eager for his moment in the limelight, and the result was a pleasant surprise for most of his colleagues. In many ways, the speech by the 17-term House veteran proved more effective than the slickly produced Democratic responses of past years that featured blow-dried young Senators and Congressmen...
SUPPOSE THE professor says, "the main character in this play is a Christ figure. Thank you. Have a good weekend." This will immediately trigger a pleasant sounding latch mechanism, opening a hatch from which a credit towards tenure will fall. If the professor already has tenure, he gets an autographed picture of himself...
...novel the reader is rudely awakened from his pleasant position in front of the fire, curled up with this good book, to discover that what he has been reading is a complete lie. The novel by Roth is a book about Nathan writing a novel...
Roth is alienated both from the old country of Eastern Europe that spawned his immigrant parents and from the pleasant diaspora, non-tenemant nest that American Jews have created for themselves. The novel's homebase is this world. Nathan lives in New York City and his brother in South Orange, a suburb of Newark, where the two brothers grew up. Roth has written about these places before. His first great novel, Goodbye, Columbus, takes place in Irvington, New Jersey, a city that borders on Newark. Roth himself grew up in Newark and Irvington...