Word: roth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both works contrast with Philip Roth's Our Gang, no less powerful a satire, but more traditional in form. Our Gang reports the story of Trick E. Dixon, President of the United States, a man with the courage to declare, "the unborn have rights...recognized in law." Though the premise is an actual Nixon proclamation of 1971, the action thereafter is fantasy. The best testimony to Roth's satirical skills is the effectiveness with which his fiction captures the reality of Nixon and of the country's reaction...
Like the other works, Roth's story evokes laughter which is sadistic, even self-righteous, but he helps us to understand the roots of liberal hatred for the image of Nixon. Trick E. Dixon epitomizes the most evil, calculating and self-serving ambition. He is totally amoral. When he is assassinated, thousands pour into Washington, each hoping to be arrested as the one who accomplished the feat...
Satires like these serve both as art, in some sense, and as propaganda. Milhouse and An Evening with--Richard Nixon are important polemical satires; their aim is more to be part of an anti-Nixon arsenal than highly crafted film or literary works. Roth concentrates less on the literal reality of Nixon, instead capturing an essential human and political horror whose relevance will extend beyond the life of the Nixon administration...
...team is made up of Peter Wolff, professor of Psychiatry, Morris Simon, associate professor of Radiology Pierce Gardner, assistant professor of Medicine and George Roth, a professor at the University of San Francisco...
...PHILIP ROTH...