Word: roth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...person trapped in that joke-Sophie Portnoy, the archetypal castrating Jewish mother, standing over her little boy with a stainless steel bread knife when he refuses to eat. The joke is a funny one, no doubt-and by elevating a stand-up routine into a comic art form, Philip Roth gave popular American culture the definitive stereotype of the Jewish mother. As for the Jewish grandmother, she is merely Sophie Portnoy writ large...
...defend frankness in works of art. Ulysses was declared nonpornographic by District Court Judge John Woolsey in 1933. Another major barrier fell when Lady Chatterley's Lover was allowed to circulate in the U.S. in 1959. But the key constitutional case had come two years before in the Roth decision...
...Supreme Court upheld the conviction of New Yorker Samuel Roth, a purveyor of soft-core magazines and books, but drew...
...Patricia Roth West Lafayette...
...turning in a strong performance in goal and a scrappy Crimson offense chipping away at the lead the good guys were suddenly on top 4-3. However, B.U. raised its ever consistent stick in a post goal celebration and the dream was over. But somehow a wrench named Randy Roth was thrown into the Terrier machine and Harvard emerged with a 5-4 miracle...