Word: roth
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Johnson was finally replaced in the 79th minute by senior Russ Mosier, a new addition to the Crimson. Mosier, who was one of the men’s volleyball team’s tri-captains last season, was added to the Harvard soccer roster after juniors Jamie Roth and Conrad Jones both went down with season-ending injuries...
Based on the novel by Philip Roth, The Human Stain follows Silk through four major stages of self-identification: anger, denial, acceptance and confession. It’s not Faunia who reveals Silk’s secrets to us, however, but the reticent Nathan Zuckerman (Gary Sinise), a reclusive writer whom Silk coaxes back to literary life. Part investigative journalist, part close friend, it is this would-be biographer who tells his story, discovers the truth behind Silk’s carefully engineered identity, and decides to write a book about Silk’s twisted and difficult journey from...
Stop reading immediately if you do not know Philip Roth's 2000 novel or have not been tipped by the think pieces generated by the book and Robert Benton's elegant, thoughtful film. (Really. Stop now!) For most of his life, Coleman has held in a central fact about himself--one that should make him proud but gave him shame. He is black, though he looks white. And since his teens he has renounced his race and his family to "pass" as a Caucasian. He told no one; only he can appreciate the stark irony of his predicament...
...citizens were denied true citizenship. If America was a club that admitted whites only, why shouldn't those who looked as if they belonged in the club try to join it? As America took small steps toward racial maturity, passing should have passed away. It did not; Roth's book was triggered by the news that the late New York Times book reviewer Anatole Broyard had been posing as white for decades...
Last year, a scoreless tie persisted till the final 10 minutes when Princeton striker Matt Douglas sent the game-winning goal that into the back of the net, and left then sophomore goalkeeper Jamie Roth watching the shot...