Word: roth
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...white middle-class residents to the suburbs has left Detroit with a school enrollment that is 70% black. Four years ago, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People sued to equalize the racial composition of schools within Detroit's city limits. Federal District Judge Stephen D. Roth (who died three weeks ago at the age of 66) approved of that goal, but went even further; he ordered the busing of thousands of Detroit's black students to classes in 53 school systems outside city limits, including such upper-class suburban enclaves as Bloomfield Hills, Grosse Pointe...
...banned in Czechoslovakia not long after his novel The Joke was published in 1967. It was about a youth who innocently wrote a postcard to his girl friend that teased her about her dedication to Communism. His little joke got him seven years at hard labor. As Philip Roth notes in his introduction to Kundera's short-story collection Laughable Loves, the author also paid. Now 45, Kundera lives in the provincial city of Brno, stripped of his teaching job at the Prague Film School, without the right to travel abroad and denied all but 10% of the royalties...
...Roth's championing of Kundera is not surprising. Both writers can be both savage and painfully hilarious about the tyrannies of politics and sex. At one point in the novel Life Is Elsewhere, Kundera tells of a poetry night at a policemen's convention. "Yes," says one of the cops during the question period, "all the poets were first-rate. But had anyone noticed that despite the fact that approximately 33 poems had been presented (assuming an average of three poems per poet), not a single one of them dealt with the national security force, even indirectly...
...Roth suggests in his introduction, this ironic detachment is a natural refuge for a writer who must endure the repressive pieties of a police state. It is also a pose achieved at considerable cost. He cites a remark the author makes in one story, that "a man lives a sad life when he cannot take anything or anyone seriously...
Died. Stephen John Roth, 66, federal district court judge who in a 1971 decision (now being reviewed by the Supreme Court) ruled that Detroit public schools were racially segregated as a result of state and local policies and ordered them to integrate, through the use of busing, with schools in 52 suburban districts; of a heart attack; in Flint, Mich...