Word: roth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LUST IS THE metaphor for the human condition in Philip Roth's novel, The Professor of Desire. His story of a young man's effort to arrive at sexual and romantic happiness is funny, written with a pungent Rabelasian wit, but marked by an underlying not of wistfulness. He portrays a dissatisfation almost inherent in living, the incompatibility of passion and peace and the transcience of happiness...
David Kepesh, the hero of Roth's novel, is a scholar of literature and lust. "Studious by day, dissolute by night" is David's motto although his career as a sexual prodigy only begins after he has won a Fullbright to study in London. There he meets two Swedish girls; Elizabeth, loving and sweet, and Birgitta, daring and wildly lascivious. The choice is between the hearth or the furnace and, characteristically, David wants both. For a while Kepesh manages to have that but Elizabeth flees the menage a trois and David eventually breaks with Birgitta, recoiling from the destructiveness...
Berkeley Women's Music Collective--Paine Hall at 8 Mark Dix--Common Grounds at 8:30 Novo Selo--MFA Tapestry Hall at 7:30 Nameless Coffeehouse--3 Church St. at 7:30 Chuck McDermott and Wheatstraw--Jonathan Swift's at 9 Chris Smither and Kevin Roth--Passim at 8 and 10:30 New England Country Dance--Adams House dining hall at 8 ERA Square Dance--Agassiz Gym at 8:30 Bob Probert and Kevin Kelly--Springfield Street Saloon at 9 Patty Larkin--Back Room at the Idler at 9 Jim Leahy, Jim Fleumadora--Sword-in-the-Stone...
Nameless Coffeehouse--3 Church St. at 7:30 Jim Bashian--Back Room at the Idler at 9 Bob Probert and Kevin Kelly--Springfield Street Saloon at 9 Dave Shulemson, Buffy Groves--Sword-in-the-Stone at 9 Chris Smither and Kevin Roth--Passim at 8 and 10:30 Chuck McDermott and Wheatstraw--Jonathan Swift...
Common Grounds at 3 Strange Brew Coffeehouse--Hilles Penthouse at 6 Chris Smither and Kevin Roth--Passim at 8:30 Music, Mirth and Madness--Old Cambridge Baptist Church at 7 and 9 Martha Heywood--Back Room at the Idler at 9 Larriat Lasso--Springfield Street Saloon at 9 Open Hoot--Sword-in-the-Stone...