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According to Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature Ruth R. Wisse, Summers’ straightforwardness may put him at an unfair political disadvantage...
...short radio plays for National Public Radio and he created an original comix-style opera, "The Carbon Copy Building." But more relevant to "Comics Decode" are his slide shows. Never a straight reading, he frames his presentations in a loose lecture format with titles like, "Halftone Printing in the Yiddish Press and Other Objects of Idol Worship." But the lectures consist of the kind of vaguely-plausible-but-absurd nonsense that make up the majority of Katchor's work. He essentially becomes a character in a one-man-show that features the reading of comix...
Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature Ruth R. Wisse is co-faculty advisor of the Harvard Salient and is author of the book, If I Am Not for Myself: The Liberal Betrayal of the Jews...
...doing an American Pie with a piece of liver. In Mason and Dixon--written entirely in 18th century English, not an easy patois for slapstick--Ben Franklin gives people electric shocks as a bar trick, and George Washington gets high on the hemp from his own farm and speaks Yiddish. In Gravity's Rainbow, Tyrone Slothrop engages in a Malcolm X-assisted dive into a jazz-club toilet bowl that puts Trainspotting to shame. And in V., the New York City department of sanitation has a division arming men to kill the alligators in the sewers...
...Harvard graduate first exhorted Summers to be a mensch, the Yiddish word for a person of integrity, and then asked him if he was going to use Harvard’s endowment for “the common good or for special interests...