Word: bober
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visiting faculty will, as last year, join the University instructors. M. M. Bober, professor of Economics at Lawrence College, an authority on Marxism, will teach two courses, "Capitalism and Socialism" and "Money and Banking." Hans J. Morgenthau, professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, will lead an undergraduate course and a seminar...
Lawrence College's Economist Mandell Morton Bober, 65, intense, deadpan expert on Marx, general iconoclast and most quoted man on the Appleton (Wis.) campus. Sample Boberisms: "If God were half as nice to us as we are to him, we'd be living in paradise," "Businessmen have as much competition as they cannot get rid of," "Once we went to market with money in pocket and came home with goods in basket; now we go to market with money in basket and come home with goods in pocket," "If every man carried his cross, mighty few women would...
Again he takes a familiar, almost mythical theme, turns it upside down and irradiates it with originality. His hero is Morris Bober, an aging Brooklyn grocer who is clinging to solvency by his fingertips. But Morris is also that legendary Jewish figure of misfortune, the schlemiel, whose fate has been told and retold from the Old Testament to Sholom Aleichem. Bobers good intentions gain him nothing but hard knocks. The only dangers he escapes are imaginary ones. Yet, through all his woes, there shines unblinkingly the steady light of a good heart...
Toward Expiation. Morris Bober's world is bounded by his seedy store, his endlessly nagging wife Ida, his difficult daughter Helen-a girl who wants "to be a virgin again and at the same time a mother"-and his wealthy neighbor Karp, whose "every good fortune spattered others with misfortune, as if there were just so much luck in the world and what Karp left over wasn't fit to eat." Morris Bober's troubles never come singly. Not only has a brand-new grocery opened around the corner, halving his already pitiful income, but a pair...
Ebullient Harry Bober will guide students through the art museums of the Boston area in his course, Fine Arts 14. Examining original paintings from various periods, this course is the answer to those who wish to escape the lantern slide method of Fine Arts 13. Fogg Small Room...