Word: roth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LETTING Go (630 pp.)-Philip Roth-Random House...
...Philip Roth who faces the ordeal. His first book, Goodbye, Columbus, published three years ago when he was 27, won him a National Book Award and justified acclaim as the best American short storyist to appear since Salinger. It was a sour, funny look at Jewish life in the U.S., and the only doubt critics had was whether an author capable of such superb genre-painting would ever trouble himself to attempt the bigger (and presumably more important) picture...
...platinum-pated actress, rooks his partners out of their life savings, and check-bounces the firm into bankruptcy to keep his sleek chick's wrists warm (with bracelets). But most of the time Harry is too homey to be unwholesome. He rushes home to Mama (Lillian Roth), counts on her for cooking, and sweeps her into an Oedipalsy song and dance number called Momma, Momma...
Jules Dassin's direction is unimaginative and annoying, I don't care who he is. His actors either stand rooted to the spot or follow the basic blockings that every amateur knows. Howard Bay's set and lighting, on the other hand, are of the highest quality. Ann Roth's costumes are adequate when gaudiness is called for, less than that when everyday dress is worn. The incidental music, by Victor Ziskin '59, is incidental...
...other side of the fence--and without reticence--is Roger D. Fisher '43, professor of Law, who is an expert on the law of obscenity. Besides his work on the Roth case, Fisher has given advice on several issues to the Massachusetts Obscene Literature Control Commission...