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This personal agenda is but one of many treasures to be found in a huge, paperbound tome with the sexless title In the Matter of Representative Newt Gingrich: Exhibits to Draft Report of the Select Committee on Ethics . Published as an evidentiary annex to the much shorter and duller House Ethics Committee report itself, the volume contains notes, memos, doodles, cancelled checks, and other Newt ephemera from 1990 to 1994.
As for the chattering classes, they chatter almost exclusively to one another, and they are very dull people--far duller than the old New Yorker .
Du Bois wrote, "Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, a surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage-ground."
Shulman aside, you could find one-line descriptions of Goodman's main characters in any half-dozen American-Jewish novels: the rabbi with two sons, one brilliant and prodigal, one duller but more loyal; the Holocaust survivor numbed by his past; the daughters tempted by the twin heresies of feminism and Zionism (Israel is viewed as a nation of faithless sinners by these ultra-Orthodox Jews); the assimilationist Jew who comes to a bad end.
The problem both encounter in trying to script the lessons in too didactic a way--rule out Babar as colonialist, racist, sexist (Kohl), rehabilitate Goody Two Shoes (Bennett)--is that they often end up with duller stories than children deserve, tidily presented with trite interpretations.
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