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...Shabbat 1000 attracted over 600 students to Harvard's Annenberg Hall to celebrate a traditional Sabbath meal...
...time as a belly dancer, but spends most of her life cheerfully picking up inappropriate men. Her young daughter wears a pillow under her skirt pretending to be pregnant. The teen-aged brother has embraced strict religious orthodoxy and keeps interrupting the smooth flow of social events on this Sabbath evening by taping over the light switches and hiding everyone's cell phones; there is to be no electronic interference with true belief. Grandpa is a blind veteran of various Israeli wars and keeps a loaded gun handy in case the enemy decides to storm their apartment. Mom (the divine...
Philip Roth, however, is one of the literary masters most attentive to the body. He has written lovingly about its lusts (Portnoy's Complaint), its decrepitude (The Dying Animal) and the intersection of the two (a ribald graveside scene in Sabbath's Theater). In his slim, stark novel Everyman (Houghton Mifflin; 182 pages), about the life and (mostly) death of an unnamed adman, Roth plays the body's trump card: someday it will die and take the mind with...
...monitor). Since no summary of mine could capture the unmitigated pompousness of the offending passage, I quote it for you here: “The record is meant to sound like a not quite 12 year old lapsed piano student girl’s version of the Black Sabbath or Birthday Party or Bauhaus or the Pil Flowers of Romance records she’s never actually heard, just overheard her older sister and her friends Talking About [sic] behind the slammed-shut bedroom door. The girl goes down and bangs on the piano in anger and boredom, singing...
...students at [Yeshiva] in total,” Rindner says. “There are classes here that size!” The disparities between her old world and Harvard sometimes prove difficult. “I’m used to eating Kosher food, and keeping the Sabbath,” she says. “It’s difficult when my [Harvard] friends don’t.” Overall, however, Rindner does not regret spending her last semester as a visiting student. “Religiously, I feel like I am evaluating myself...