To Namierize Brownsville, showing how much each person there contributed to its peculiar American-Jewish civilization, and how it contributed to their culture, and to indicate why one person went one way, and another turned in another direction would require many volumes and be beyond the goal which Dr. Landesman set himself.

There were a few other families also picnicking and a rowboatful of young people in bathing suits were amusing themselves, sometimes rowing and sometimes stopping to dive out of the boat and climb back again amid cheerful shrieks and laughter.

The immortality of the soul they did not flatly deny , but falsely believe ; disguised under the opinion of transanimation, conceiving that dying men's souls afterward passed into other bodies, either preferred to better, or condemned to worse

For the hypermaterialistic and chronically adolescent Nancy, what was nonnegotiable was control, the power to sculpture her world to gratify her ever-sharpening appetites and desires.