Word: roth
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Whatever the merits of Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint as a novel, it is certainly the greatest closet nightclub act of our time. In sketch after sketch, Roth cuts into the family and sex life of a Jewish neurotic until funny bone and inflamed nerve ending become indistinguishable. "I'm caught in the middle of a Jewish joke," cries Alexander Portnoy to his psychoanalyst, "and it isn't funny...
Some Detroit officials see hope in a consolidation of the urban schools with those in surrounding suburbs. Federal Judge Stephen Roth has ruled that the city's schools are illegally segregated, and he has promised to order that the city and its predominantly white suburbs be linked by busing, which could ensure that no school is more than 20% black. His final decree, which is expected this week, will hardly solve the Detroit schools' overwhelming money problems. "How could we pay for it?" asked one school employee. "The city doesn't own one single school bus that...
...Detroit braced for Roth's decision, Richmond won at least a temporary reprieve from a similar court directive that its schools (69% black) be consolidated with those of two surrounding suburban counties (91% white). The order by Federal Judge Robert R. Merhige Jr. would have required that 78,000 of the 101,000 students in the Richmond metropolitan area be bused next fall to integrated schools to achieve a racial mix of no more than 40% black...
Houriet (Avon) Our Gang by Philip Roth (Bantam...
...Winds of War, Wouk (1 last week) 2-Wheels, Hailey (2) 3-The Day of the Jackal, Forsyth (3) 4-The Assassins, Kazan (5) 5-The Exorcist, Blatty (4) 6-The Betsy, Robbins (6) 7-Rabbit Redux, Updike (7) 8-The Blue Knight, Wambaugh (9) 9-Our Gang, Roth (8) 10-The Peaceable Kingdom, de Hartog