Word: absents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quorum for a religious service (minyan) is ten men, and-except among Reconstructionist Jews, who hold men and women equal-no number of women can make up for one absent man. In Orthodox synagogues, women are seated separately, and in Jerusalem they must worship separately at the Wailing Wall. Though women in Israel have fully equal secular rights and are even subject to compulsory military service, Orthodox control of such social institutions as marriage clearly favors the man. In the strict interpretation of the law, for instance, only a husband can grant a divorce. The Orthodox male attitude is perhaps...
...Bock score neatly dovetails into the book, but it lacks any single rousing number like "Tradition" from their Fiddler on the Roof score. Hal Linden is warmly convincing as a Jewish Joe Kennedy. Except for Nathan Rothschild (Paul Hecht), the brother in London, the sons are not individually distinct. Absent from the stage of the Lunt-Fontanne Theater are two favorite Rothschilds-Mouton and Lafite...
...readers to be suspicious when their divorced parents speak only good of each other; when no faults are acknowledged, a child may reasonably ask, "If he's such a great person, why did you divorce him?"' Dr. Gardner also warns youngsters against parents who insist that an absent father or mother loves the child despite evidence to the contrary. The thing to do, he says, is to ask for honesty, since "if you hide from the truth, you can do nothing about your problems...
...Nelson wrote a series of articles charging Milledgeville (Ga.) Central State Hospital with using experimental drugs on mental patients without the permission or knowledge of relatives, hiring doctors who used alcohol and drugs on duty, even letting nurses perform major surgery when doctors were absent. The resulting furor ended with the resignation of Milledgeville's chief surgeon and seven other doctors. The hospital superintendent retired, and the hospital was removed from the jurisdiction of the graft-ridden public welfare department and transferred to the public health department. Nelson's Milledgeville exposé won him a Pulitzer Prize...
...same tale of jealousy, love betrayed and suffering as Hollywood's 1939 heartthrobber The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, the new Devereux was even more of a showpiece for Beverly Sills than the film was for Bette Davis. Absent from the New York stage for more than a century, the opera was revived especially for Sills by the company's director, Julius Rudel. He conducted it adoringly and surrounded his prima diva with an all-star cast headed by Mezzo Beverly Wolff, Baritone Louis Quilico and, of course, Domingo. Amply returning the favor, Sills proved again that...