Word: americae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reach quite young what many people consider the dream life of America: success by my own efforts, a stream of dollars to spend, a penthouse in New York, forays to Hollywood, the companionship of pretty women, all before I was 24 ... There I was in the realms of gold . . . But even as I lived this conventional smart existence of inner show business, and dreamed the conventional dreams, it all seemed thin...
Wouk feels, though, that Judaism is gravely threatened today in America, and he threat is not the traditional one of exclusion or persecution. He personifies Judaism as "Mr. Abramson" disappearing down a broad highway at the wheel of a high-powered station wagon, with the golf clubs piled in the back. Wouk puts it in terms of an imaginary news tory: "Mr. Abramson left his home in the morning after a hearty breakfast, apparently in the best of health, and was not seen again. His last words were that he would get in a round before going...
...cheered louder at Fidel Castro's victory last January than the Chicago Tribune's longtime Latin America correspondent Jules Dubois. Gushed Dubois in a flattering biography of the hero: "A deep reverence for civilian, representative, constitutional government." The dazzled dictator decorated the newsman with a medal engraved, "To our American friend Jules Dubois with gratitude." Last week, eight months and dozens of somewhat less enchanted dispatches later, the love affair was over, in an act of petulance as comical as it was absurd...
IMPORT BANS against foreign-made men's and boys' clothing are being instituted by Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Union invoked contract clause that prohibits makers from handling apparel not made within union jurisdiction, will force three large New York-based chains-Ripley, Howard, Crawford (totaling 177 stores)-to halt imports of West German woolen loden coats...
...Image of America, Bruckberger...