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...Philip Roth proved that New Jersey, summer camp and a claustrophobic family life could inspire brilliant satire. Whether they could inspire tragedy remained in doubt until Julia Markus addressed herself to the theme of growing up Jewish in Jersey City. Tragedy requires the decline of a hero, and Markus has invented one-however low key-in this somber, eloquent novel: Irving Bender, the son of East European Jews for whom the immigrant dream of success had come to nothing. "Irv's father drank and gambled and died," she writes in her terse idiom. "The mother got along...
...going to be very difficult to win tomorrow," Sen. William Roth (R-Del.), co-sponsor of the proposal with Rep. Jack Kemp (R-N.Y.), said yesterday, but he added he would carry the fight to the Senate floor if his proposal failed in committee...
...Delaware's Republican Senator William V. Roth sees it, there are three distinct classes in the U.S. where higher education is concerned: l)"the very rich," who can afford the best colleges; 2)"the very poor," who can meet skyrocketing costs only because of various aid programs; and 3)"the very taxed," those middle-income Americans who have no easy way to pay their kids' bloated bills. Inflation has kicked their incomes not only into higher tax brackets but also out of the grant and loan market. At the same time, their after-tax income is barely keeping...
...been fine-tuning measures designed to bail out the Middle American, differing sharply in their approaches. Last week, in a display of irresolution that was unusual even for Capitol Hill, the Senate approved both approaches by large margins. First the Senate approved, 65 to 27, a bill proposed by Roth that would grant to parents an immediate tax credit of 50% of tuition and fees for every child in a college or post-secondary vocational school up to a ceiling of $250; the limit would be raised to $500 a child in the fall of 1980. Cost to the Government...
...revenues lost by the cut -a prospect that critics sneeringly refer to as a "free lunch." Under Kemp's prodding, many G.O.P. candidates are seizing on the issue; this fall the Republican National Committee plans to fly Kemp and the bill's cosponsor, Senator William Roth of Delaware, to various parts of the country to dramatize what they are billing as the "Republican...