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Portnoy wears his Oedipus complex as if it were a festering good-conduct medal that had been stapled to his sternum. But his is a tragedy in which Oedipus is played by Groucho Marx. Mother Portnoy is a vibrant orange-haired vision who has never given up trying to smother her son in the warm pudding of her ample bosom. She surpasses the grotesque stereotype simply because Roth plays her absolutely straight, making her totally and comically unconscious of the unconscious...
...long neglected pursuit of political theory may find a new and vibrant meaning in today's intellectual world...
...science and defense-related studies, and the discouraging impact of public grants on private giving. Yet some of the opposition has more of a rhetorical than a pragmatic ring. Declares President J. Donald Phillips of Michigan's Hillsdale College: "I don't like to see the vibrant muscle of independence and incentive turned into the flabby fat of dependence...
...much about Pusey from his description of what is right about Harvard students as from his more widely circulated commentary about what is wrong with some of them. "The vast majority of Harvard undergraduates went about their essential business seriously and gaily," Pusey says, thereby creating "an extraordinarily vibrant community life." Exhibiting his fondness for numbers, he goes on to note that 800 students performed in various plays, that 2000 undergraduates earned $826,000 in term-time employment, that 1000 participated in service programs, that 60 ("three score") seniors won honorary fellowships, and 69 per cent graduated with honors...
...Western podiums, is no less a dynamic charmer than Mehta. A favorite of young people, he sports a Beatle hairdo and a free-swinging style in the manner of Leonard Bernstein. Sometimes he indulges his expressive stick technique to paint panels of sheer sound, but he can also propel vibrant, vivacious performances as notable for their substance as for their sheen...