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Philip Roth is given a similar dressing-down for Alexander Portnoy, the Jew who sees his Jewishness as a trap preventing his development into a Franchot Tone American. "Who, born a Jew in the 20th century, has been so lofty in spirit as never to have shared this fantasy?" replies Howe. "But who, born a Jew in the 20th century, has been so deluded as to stay with this fantasy for more than a few moments?" Such sobering interrogations have always kept the American Jew leaping from the melting pot into the fire. R.Z. Sheppard
Ironically, the price would have to be paid by another proud tradition. The Cree Indians-and still smaller groups of Inuit Eskimos, who inhabit the vast subarctic regions of northern Quebec -numbered about 10,000. When word of the James Bay Project filtered along the trap lines and river banks, the Cree sent a delegation to Montreal to protest. They gathered in an overheated courtroom with a lawyer named O'Reilly to argue that damming the seven great rivers of their "garden" would not only cut off their livelihood but destroy their culture...
That encomium is immediately regarded as a trap. An old short-story writer warned Yuri about such hazards years ago, after the poet had offered compliments for a tale. "Did I write that?" the old survivor had asked. "Perhaps you shouldn't like it, and I apologize for having written it. That is, if I wrote it in the first place. And if I didn't write that story (and I'm not saying that I didn't), you shouldn't be congratulating me in a public place with dozens of people whom...
Great Performances and In Performance at Wolf Trap (PBS). The Fifth Freedom-freedom from yammer-is eloquently defended in programs that do not educate us about music or sell it to us, but offer it well performed without self-congratulation or apology...
...spring the tender trap, an acquisition-minded company usually advertises its willingness to buy stock in another firm at a price well above current market value though commonly below the stock's book value, or proportionate share of the company's net worth. The aggressor usually gives no warning; the management of a company under attack often learns about the tender offer only by reading the newspaper ads the same day stockholders...