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That Roth is gone. This isn't even the lyrical late Roth of American Pastoral. Indignation is the work of the late-late Roth, the Roth of bitter, bitten-off miniatures like Everyman and Exit Ghost: curt, tetchy, unhumorous. But this post-Roth Roth does have something to say to the Roth who wrote Portnoy 40 years...
...mortality.The book progresses under Marcus’s narration, where he reveals to the reader, after a time, that he is telling this story from beyond the grave. For Roth fans, this will come as no surprise; one of Roth’s most recent novels, “Everyman,” deals explicitly with a character taking stock of his life beginning at his own funeral. In “Indignation,” Roth explores, albeit in a few sentences, the most interesting aspect of Marcus’s story—the idea of the naked...
...economic plans, and just about impossible to see how Obama's decision to vacation near his grandmother in Hawaii undercuts his claim to economic leadership. But ever since the wealthy Whig William Henry Harrison's brilliant "log cabin and hard cider" campaign, candidates have tried to strike an Everyman pose, and missteps that have made them look "out of touch" - like George H.W. Bush checking his watch during an economic debate, or John Kerry windsurfing off Nantucket, or even Bill Clinton of Hope, Ark., getting an expensive haircut - have created major political headaches...
This is terribly shortsighted; hero-to-the-everyman Franklin D. Roosevelt probably wore fancier shoes than McCain does, and it's a safe bet that he was an even worse bowler than Obama is. But punishing candidates for wealth or élitism is still less crazy than punishing candidates for talent. The McCain campaign has been mocking Obama's rhetorical skills, as if speech-making were not a job requirement for the presidency. McCain's latest Web ad ridicules Obama for inspiring passion among his supporters, as if real Presidents were supposed to make Americans completely unenthusiastic. The candidates have...
...after his unfortunate bowling excursion (where he scored a measly 47) Obama visited an agricultural facility in State College. In some campaign staffer's imagination the scene of the candidate in shirtsleeves feeding a bottle to a baby cow was a good way to present Obama-the-everyman. But with the media decked out in little blue protective booties, and Obama self-consciously patting the animal, the scene was uncomfortable for everybody but the calf...