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Article: Evoking a life well lived, from prewar Vienna to ivory tower.(BOOKS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- June 27, 2004
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Byline: Corinna Lothar, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Full disclosure, first. Marjorie Perloff is a friend. Like her, I came to the United States as a refugee from Hitler (she from Vienna, I from Frankfurt). We were both wide-eyed little girls from totally assimilated Jewish families, and I see myself in this memoir - the same problems, the same rewards that mark all immigrants, the underlying anxiety, the uncertainty we learned to cover with brashness and pretended self-confidence.
She gets it all exactly right, striking perfect pitch in recounting the minor details of the journey to America and her childhood here: the enthusiastic description by the ...