Word: rothe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...never lacked for critics eager to consign him to the minors. His career began during the heyday of brilliant U.S. Jewish writing. Saul Bellow, J.D. Salinger, Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, among others, were the critics' darlings. A sensitive outsider from the sticks did not measure up to prevailing standards. In Commentary, Norman Podhoretz complained, "His short stories ... strike me as all windup and no delivery." Bruised by appraisals like this, Updike eventually turned his hurt feelings to good use: "Out of that unease, I created Henry Bech to show that I was really a Jewish writer also...
...bloc industrial spies as alarming threats, particularly so in California, the nerve center of U.S. defense, aerospace and electronics research. Intelligence sources estimate that more than 30 of the 52 diplomats in the San Francisco Soviet consulate are members of the KGB, the Soviet espionage agency. Says Senator William Roth of Delaware: "There is no doubt that the Soviets have undertaken a massive, well-financed, expertly coordinated program to systematically acquire as much of our high technology as they can steal, purchase through middlemen, or otherwise appropriate." Declares Los Angeles FBI Chief Richard Bretzing: "We've been losing some...
After disembarking, the assortment of Americans brought together by the tour hugged and kissed each other and sang the doxology in praise of God. "We were all prepared to crash," says Ronald D. Roth, a guidance counselor at North Hunterdon Regional High School in Annandale, N.J., who was leading the group. "This is one adventure we didn't need...
...literary disaster if Gore Vidal were suddenly to fall silent? Easy: No. In fact, there is something to be said for the idea. What if John Updike were to stop writing? A shame, but not a duster for American culture. Walker Percy? Joyce Carol Gates? Donald Barthelme? No. Philip Roth? Joseph Heller? William Styron? Truman Capote? John Gardner? John Irving? Norman Mailer? Stop It gets to be a pogrom. The mind flips through its card catalogue. Very few disastrous silences loom...
...Bernard Roth...