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Another half-dozen or so may be deceiving themselves rather than us, individuals such as the mayor of Delray Beach, Fla., Tom Lynch.
Today, Rubell is dead of AIDS, and Schrager owns the half-dozen most chic hotels in the United States.
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.
Poet Neal Bowers was plagiarized by a writer who submitted a half-dozen of his poems to different publications.
It was art, pure and simple, and it was immensely nourishing--and if you don't believe me, ask the half-dozen or so guys I play poker with every week.