Word: brooklyns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BROOKLYN WITH LOVE, by Gerald Green. The sights, sounds and special excitement of Brownsville during the Depression are convincingly evoked in this memoir disguised as a novel by the author of The Last Angry...
...Brooklyn-born David Weinrib, 43, is another artist who feels that technology is, at best, only the handmaiden to inspiration. "The ideas you have," he explains, "force you to try new materials, not the other way around." His Manhattan studio has been redone five times in ten years as he shifted from bronze to steel and plastic constructions and finally to polyester resin. One of his recent plastic pieces is Five Inverted Pyramids, a work that gleams with static tension; it confines the eye with its precise geometry, while at the same time allowing it to penetrate luxuriously into...
...years ago, Brooklyn-born Dancer Barbara Weisberger started a small ballet school in an old studio in Philadelphia. Funds at first were scarce; she and her two teaching colleagues paid themselves $20 a month, and at least once the landlord locked them out for nonpayment of rent. Thanks to some timely help from the Ford Foundation, the school grew into the Pennsylvania Ballet. Judging by its performances at Manhattan's City Center last week, it is one of the most promising of the new U.S. dance companies...
Died. Paula Ben-Gurion, 76, wife of the former Israeli Prime Minister; of a hemorrhage; in Beersheba. "I didn't marry a Prime Minister," she said once, "I made one." That was typical of the outspoken, Brooklyn-raised nurse who played wife, secretary and mother to B-G through 51 years of revolution, rule and final retirement to a kibbutz in 1963. Paula's touch was homey-she fetched thermos jugs of coffee to her husband at the Knesset during late-night debates-but her tongue was a national weapon. "I understand," she told Charles de Gaulle, when...
...there was a quota of humor, fundamental decency and kindness. Moreover, he packed a mighty literary ambition. He made it plain that he was out to lasso and pin down the Great American Novel. He wanted to force the whole torrent of the U.S. experience between covers, from mean Brooklyn alleys to the lush farms of the heartland, from city slickers to wary countrymen-and for good measure he meant to throw in mountains, rivers and railroads...