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EVER SINCE Philip Roth introduced the neurotic, oversexed William Portnoy to the literary world, a band of literateurs has harried him. Reviewers accustomed to propriety panned the book and accused Roth of writing pornography. Zionists and orthodox Jews charged him with betraying his heritage and making a mockery of the Holocaust. Jewish mothers, appalled by what they perceived as scathing anti-Semitism, threatened to lace his chicken soup with arsenic...
...surprisingly, this stream of hostility took its toll. The biting self-confidence of Roth's early prose-seems to have yielded to a tone of resignation and uncertainty...
Four years ago Roth unveiled The Ghost Writer--the first of a trilogy exploring the psyche and libido of Nathan Zuckerman. He followed it two years later with the second volume. Zuckerman Unbound. Now in The Anatomy Lesson--the new, final member of the series--Roth and Zuckerman seem to have resolved little...
...feel bad scheduling Friday classes because that's the most important day on the soaps," Deborah T. Roth '84 said. She added that she and her seven roommates watch about three hours of soap every day. "I had a roommate who left a lecture in the middle to watch Laura's wedding...
Before an audience of about 125 at the halffilled Ames Courtroom. Cranston detailed his program to revive the economy Restoring taxes reduced as a result of the Kemp Roth tax bill, eliminating the MX missile system and other defense projects, and increasing employment would "lead us towards a balanced budget," he said...