Word: avram
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...protesters charged that Major General Avram Mitzna, who oversaw military operations in the West Bank from May 1987 to June 1989, was responsible for several human rights abuses in the occupied territories...
This is actually true. Browsing through the alphabetized entries in this novel is not only possible but pleasurable. Under "Brankovich, Avram," for example, a figure of speech is given new life: "The daughter had taken all her best features from her mother, who after birth remained forever ugly." The definition of kaghan includes the following detail: "The kaghan always shared power with a coruler and was senior to him only to the extent that he was the first to be wished a good day." And then there is "Cyril," which sets forth its subject's illustrious life, including his attempt...
...Avram Patt shifts his straw hat and announces that the next song will be Wild Night in Odessa. Then he goes back to his drums, and all hell breaks loose. The six-member Nisht Geferlach klezmer band erupts into the raucous, sometimes haunting music that one member describes as "Dixieland meets Eastern Europe." Patt, 37, the soloist, explains every song in English before singing in fluid Yiddish, his language of record as a boy in the Amalgamated cooperative houses in the West Bronx...
...Iota chapter of Phi Beta Kappa elected four women as honorary members: Ellen H. Goodman '63, Gordimer, Professor of History and of Women's Studies Olwen Hufton and Muriel Snowden '38. And the Alpha chapter elected eight men: William V. Binger '38, Michael R. Dilland '63, Avram J. Goldberg '51, John C. Harkness '38, Smith Professor of the French and Spanish Languages and Literatures Juan Marichal, Bishop Methodius, Thomas W. Rush '63 and Simic...
News Editor for this Issue: Brooke A. Masters '89 Night Editors: Julie L. Belcove '89 Noam S. Cohen '89 Spencer S. Hsu '90 Jonathan M. Moses '88 Copy Editor: Avram S. Brown '89 Editorials Editor: John J. Murphy '89 Features Editor: Brooke A. Masters '89 Photo Editors: Eugene L. Jhong '90 Gavin R. Villareal '90 Sports Editor: Casey J. Lartigue Jr. '89 Michael J. Lartigue '89 Business Editor: Amy J. Merritt...