Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When is a Jew not a Jew? When he is in Israel, if he belongs to a sect of which the Chief Rabbi disapproves. And being considered a non-Jew in Israel can be awkward, especially if one falls in love. Mixed marriages are illegal-no rabbi may marry a Jew to a non-Jew-and civil marriage (and divorce) does not exist. The result is a storm of resentment between Israel's secular and religious Jews, which is currently whistling around the ears of silver-thatched Acting Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Nissim...
...story as a musical: he retained Harold Rome's buttery score only as background music. But Fanny never makes the weight: all chance for the love story to be intimate and believable is lost at the outset. Part of the trouble is that the color camera is an awkward renderer of wry legends; it is a sousaphone, not a lyre. Another part is on-location filming-Logan paid too much attention to the location. As the movie begins, the camera swoops down for an aerial view of the blue, cluttered, ever-so-quaint Marseilles harbor. From that point...
...carloadings were declining, there were 554,000 flatcar piggyback trips last year. Barring a reversal in the courts, the new decision should enable the railroads to regain a substantial percentage of the nation's freight business. Railroad men see almost unlimited possibilities for a sensible idea with the awkward name of "containerization"-moving a sealed cargo container from door to door without any repackaging of its contents. Though the Teamsters charge that piggybacking is designed to destroy the trucking industry entirely, the railroads are already cooperating with truckers in building large piggyback terminals, can now go full speed ahead...
...brown-eyed, curly-haired Florence Jacobs is at an awkward age-too young for kindergarten and too old for alphabet blocks. Since she was eleven months old. Florence has been able to recite the alphabet. She can also tick off, alphabetically, in singsong style, the 50 states, the countries of Latin America, the planets and their satellites. She can spell Mississippi and hippopotamus. A child of the space age. Florence warns that an astronaut's hazards include "cosmic rays, micrometeorites, ultraviolet rays and infra-red emissions.'' Last week Florence earned what for her age is the Nobel...
Part of a Trend. Because Miami has been accepting students from Latin America, some with Negro blood, since it was founded (in recent years South and Central American students have numbered about 225 of the total of 14,000), the university had been in the awkward position of refusing admission only to American Negroes. "This just makes legal what we've been doing all along," said one dean. But Miami President Jay F. W. Pearson made clear that the move was deliberate and far-reaching. Said he: "We all recognized that sooner or later we would integrate. Some said...