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Doubtless many preoccupations encouraged Roth to turn to this type of plot. He probably wanted to expand his own horizons, to escape from the limitations of writing that sub-genus of novel, "Jewish fiction." Perhaps he felt that the kind of book he had been writing has been overworked in the United States as well as in his own career. But When She Was Good also seems motivated by a drive to make a more general point about America than Roth had previously done. Lucy is trying to uphold the morals which symbolize smalltown America and, indeed, "the American...
...boat that won the Bermuda race, sails his own 37-ft. sloop and is a longstanding member of the New York Yacht Club. He sketched and photographed Sailor Mosbacher in action from the deck of Mary Poppins, Intrepid's tender, and at the dock, and revisited his sub ject and scene until he was sure he had exactly the right bearing. "I wanted this cover painting to be authentic," he said. "I have friends in the Yacht Club who would raise the devil if I made a mistake...
Among OGO accomplishments: map ping the earth's magnetic field; plotting the puzzling bursts of radio noise from Jupiter; and revealing a surprising boundary layer of ions (charged sub atomic particles) some 16,000 to 24,000 miles out in space. By continuously transmitting such evidence, OGOs have given scientists an unprecedented blue print of the earth's environment...
...another compound, hundreds of the rank and file of the PLA pressed against the barbed-wire and called to reporters; Israeli soldiers sporting sub-machine guns converged on them and forced them back to a white, chalk line several feed from the barb wire. One of the prisoners, their spokesman, held up a piece of paper which he promised would prove that they were refugees on the U.N. payroll and not soldiers. The contract, upon closer examination, had expired on May 31, five days before the battle for Gaza; U Thant's withdrawal had left them in the hole...
...only forty or fifty lines. Any further cutting is unwise. The text as we have it is, except for The Comedy of Errors, the shortest in the canon. It is hardly more than half as long as Hamlet. As it stands, it is tightly constructed. There are no sub-plots, and no excrescences. Everything deals with the prime matter at hand--even the drunken porter's scene has a far more important function than that of mere comic relief. The dramatist compressed some seventeen years into the space of a few months. More than any of the other tragedies, Macbeth...