Anchor: Mayhem, family collapse, the occasional terrorist bomb, mad government policies, human platitudes--in this pleasant springtime of 1997, these, as Roth renders them, do seem to be everyone's favorite topics of conversation.
Entailed: Mayhem is a common theme in everyone's topics of conversation. 
Contradiction: Mayhem and terrorists bombs are never talked about in topics of conversations. 
Contradiction: a toddler is sleeping
Contradiction: The bus number 99 does a circuit of many of the main sights in Jerusalem.
Contradiction: I am asking very nicely.
Contradiction: There are two.