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...great events. Rather, it comes from the happenings in the lives of everyday people. Faulkner, Hemingway, Steinbeck and the like could not have written good novels--much less great ones--about Jerry Ford or Dick Nixon. And any attempts in that direction have failed miserably--see Philip Roth's The Gang or any of the unmemorable fictional treatments of Roosevelts and Rockefellers, Trumans and Truman Capotes for proof positive...
Delaware's Senator William Roth wonders about all this travel on the basis of its cost alone. He has learned that the Federal Government plans to spend $2.3 billion for travel this fiscal year. Roth has a computer printout of Government travel patterns that runs 25 ft., roughly $100 million a foot. He would like to see a 10% cut across the board, with Ford leading...
Admittedly, the subject of this film--Jewish identity in the New World--is pretty well worn; everybody from Ernest Hemingway to Phillip Roth has used it with varying degrees of success. The distinctive feature of the topic in this film is that, unlike Robert Cohn or Alexander Portnoy, the principal character never undergoes a genuine identity crisis. Jake never really denies his Jewishness; upon learning of his father's death, he dons the ceremonial Jewish mourning shawl, and even his girlfriend, Mamie Fein, is Jewish. Jake's Jewishness never comes into question because he never departs from the Jewish community...
Leonard Michaels's task is not so difficult. Writing for a minute market--liberal intellectuals, largely Eastern--he can begin each of his perhaps fifty stories with a literary world presupposed. Marx, Freud, Byron, a Jewish boyhood (familiar to gentile literati from reading Mailer and Roth), and the inertia of the 1950s all loom in the book's background, the author only has to select which allusions to use for each story's point of departure...
...break out in blisters. Some victims develop gallstones. In the past, victims of EPP have had to avoid direct sunlight as much as possible, covering up or staying indoors entirely during the summer months. Now they have an alternative. A team of researchers headed by Dr. Micheline M. Mathews-Roth of Harvard Medical School has found that betacarotene, a substance that occurs naturally in green and yellow vegetables (including carrots), can mitigate the symptoms of photosensitivity. Fifty-three EPP patients were treated daily with synthetic beta-carotene (now being manufactured as a prescription drug by Roche Laboratories of Nutley...