Word: chapter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Last Chapter. To a generation once removed from the holocaust of European Jewry, The Last Chapter will be an illuminated manuscript of what once was and can never be again. To some of those whose memories are longer, it will be a film almost too bitter to bear...
...Chapter shows the end first: the new Diaspora after Hitler's "final solution" scattered the remaining Jews to the U.S. and Israel. Then the film tours the ancient village of Kazimierz on the Vis tula, where Jews first settled in Poland. Though Poland gave them nothing but space-on land they could not own-the Jews returned the favor tenfold over the centuries...
...weavers, blacksmiths, tailors, scholars, even soldiers who fought in segregated battalions for Polish independence against the Czar. In return, Poland alternately ignored them or persecuted them with murderous pogroms. Still, a year without a pogrom was considered a good one, and the good years were poetically simple and sweet. Chapter shows a cheder, a Hebrew school full of students so serious that they are almost comic, a scene from a Yiddish play, a 1912 home movie of an Orthodox wedding looking for all the world like a series of moving Chagall lithographs of children, bride, groom and wedding guests...
...Radcliffe chapter of Phi Beta Kappa Tuesday night elected its junior eight They are; Leslie V. Altman, of Shepard House and Washington, D.C., History and Literature; Judith G. Cohen, of Warner House and Brooklyn, N.Y., Astronomy; Ingrid J. Lorch, of Jordan W and New York City, Government; Suzanne R. Bloom, of Cabot H and Kenmore, N.Y., History and Literature...
...number of smaller inconsistencies are also irksome. A few examples: Dr. Moles says the range of loudness in music is from 30 decibels to 100 decibels. On the next line he says Stokowski performed triple pianissimo at 20 decibels; was that not music? In Chapter 1, from concocted statistics about a "typical" musical score, he calculates the redundancy of certain aspects of musical notation to be 15 percent. In the rest of the book he refers to the great redundancy of the musical score in comparison with the slight redundancy, perhaps 20 percent, of musical performances. He should have rigged...