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PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT should do for novelist Philip Roth what Levy's advertisements did for Jewish rye. Not that it has ever been necessary for one to be Jewish in order to like Roth. When compared to the brooding and melancholic that seems so irrepressible in much of Bellow and Malamud, Roth's treatment of the American Jew has always been relentlessly comic--even if sometimes bitterly so. Bellow's Jews--optimistic characters like Augie March included--seem to have been wandering ever since the Diaspora began. Meanwhile, Malamud has drifted back into Czarist Russia to find realities analogous...
...research by traveling in the U.S. and talking with journalists, businessmen (California's Norton Simon, Litton Industries' Charles-"Tex"-Thornton), and even U.S. Russia watchers (Columbia's Zbigniew Brzezinski, Harvard's Merle Fainsod). He participated in a discussion group of U.S. and Russian leaders in Rye, N.Y., and will travel to Washington, Boston and California before his return...
...comedy, enriched by the quietly commanding achievement of Richard Castellano's performance as Frank. Pouch-eyed and beer-bellied, he looks, talks and acts just like Paddy Chayevsky's Marty grown 30 years older, and gives to the entire production a particular comic flavor of rue on rye...
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...most cases, Land of the Free was retained by the schools as suitable for children's eyes, although 19% of all criticized books were ultimately banned. Among other works most frequently railed against, according to the N.E.A. hate list: Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, Orwell's 1984, Huxley's Brave New World, Griffin's Black Like Me, and Golding's Lord of the Flies...