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Evidence of Love finds her on un familiar ground. The novel's settings include Philadelphia in the 1880s, Europe before and after World War I, British East Africa, contemporary small-town Pennsylvania, Chicago and a modern retirement community on Florida's Gulf Coast. But the three main characters seem to have less interest in place than in themselves...
Czarist Pogroms. HIAS, whose tradition of helping refugees from Russia reaches back to the czarist pogroms of the 1880s, has thus far resisted Israeli pressure. Last week the Israeli government dispatched two top officials, Yehuda Avner and Nehemia Levanon, to a meeting of Jewish organizations in Philadelphia to press its case. Still, no decision was taken on the issue of cutting off aid to dropouts...
...most conspicuous contribution to the fight against epidemics involves poliomyelitis. There were minor outbreaks of infantile paralysis in Scandinavia in the 1880s, but in 1894 the first true epidemic occurred in Vermont's Otter Creek Valley, with no fewer than 132 cases recorded...
While the picture belongs to Brando, it is a nice question whether The Missouri Breaks is worth owning. Penn has peopled it with interesting, unfamiliar faces, and shot it with obviously strong feelings for the landscape and period detail of the 1880s. Yet the strong technique is enlisted in the service of a very modest irony that has become one of the basic banalities of the modern western. Once again, the works of nature are shown to have grandeur and innocence, while the works of man are everywhere perceived as squalid pollutants...
...lively culture of Yiddishkeit, and the rapid Jewish dispersion into the mainstream of American culture, by recasting them in the words of the immigrants themselves. In the wake of the assassination of czar Alexander II and the pogroms which followed, thousands of Jews left their homeland in the 1880s to fulfill their dream of a Jewish nation while hoping individually to gain some of the amenities of survival. The discovery that the two were mutually exclusive in America was the immigrants' tragic vision, according to Howe, and their subsequent individual decisions to assimilate were their tragic fall...