“Dr. Roboy, in Litvak’s measured view, had a vice common to believers: He was all strategy and no tactics. He was prone to move for the sake of moving, too focused on the goal to bother with the intervening sequence.”

Source: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007), Chapter 39

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Novelist, short story writer, essayist 1963

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