Word: trodden
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...debut short-story collection from Thomas Beller (Norton; 205 pages; $21) is peopled with characters plucked straight from a hyperexposed world of young New Yorkers hopelessly flustered by attraction, ever fearful of love. These are well trodden streets, and the book at first glance appears as though it might be nothing more than the chic literary equivalent of the TV comedy "Friends." But Beller's great accomplishment, says TIME's Ginia Bellafante, "is that he has managed to weave a series of touching and exceptionally memorable tales from this familiar milieu...
Plows circled the Yard throughout the day, but the storm worked as fast as the plowers. Almost as soon as they were cleared, Cambridge sidewalks and well-trodden paths in the Yard added fresh layers...
...millions they come, the ambitious and the down-trodden of the world drawn by the strange magnetism of urban life. For centuries the progress of civilization has been defined by the inexorable growth of cities. Now the world is about to pass a milestone: more people will live in urban areas than in the countryside. Does the growth of megacities portend an apocalypse of global epidemics and pollution? Or will the remarkable stirrings of self- reliance that can be found in some of them point the way to their salvation...
...wooden homes built before Moscow had its first prince in the 13th century. In the next millennium, construction workers in Cairo, Rome and Moscow will no doubt be puzzling over traces of current cultures. As the triumphant remake the world's cities, the shards of the vanquished are literally trodden into the ground...
...ostensible argument of the book is that Jews should employ more chutzpah when it comes to standing up against anti-Semitism. ("Chutzpah" is an untranslatable Yiddish term describing qualities of assertiveness, demandingness and gall.) Dershowitz argues that Jews have too long allowed themselves to be trodden upon--to be treated as second-class citizens--because they are too concerned about making a favorable impression on their Gentile "hosts...