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Finally, some Asian-Americans, notably those of Korean and Vietnamese descent, have difficulty understanding the issues and engaging in discussion because many have recently immigrated to the United States and have a difficult time communicating in English, says...
...emigre Vera Blackwell, has said, "If Czechoslovakia had remained primarily a capitalist society, Vaclav Havel would be just about the richest man in the country." Instead, by the time Havel was a teenager, the communists had dispossessed the family. More painful still, Stalinist rules barred youths of upper-class descent from full-time education beyond early adolescence. Undaunted, Havel took a menial job in a chemical laboratory and went to night school in an attempt to qualify for university study, but his application was rejected time and again. Intrigued by the theater, he signed on as a stagehand...
With more than a million residents of Polish descent, the Chicago area is the unofficial capital of Polonia. Many of the janitors and cleaning women who vacuum and scrub the city's high-rises and the clerks who sell kielbasa and clothing in the shops along Milwaukee Avenue speak little or no English. News about the old country is broadcast in Polish on radio and television and headlined by the daily Zgoda (circ. 15,000) and at least a dozen thriving Polish-language weeklies. The reaction of leading commentators in recent months has sometimes bordered on euphoria. "Events in Poland...
...life trying to recapture that elemental radiance on paper and canvas. The quest began obscurely on the loam of Sun Prairie, Wis., and ended famously in the desert of Abiquiu, N. Mex. O'Keeffe was the daughter of an Irish-American farmer and a Hungarian American of aristocratic descent. As art historian Roxana Robinson discloses in this romantic but insightful biography, both strains were apparent from the beginning. The child had six siblings, and she could be highly social and convivial. But it took great effort, and she once admitted, "I don't take easily to being with people...
...located near the Western (Wailing) Wall are teaching nearly 200 students the elaborate details of Temple service. Other groups are researching the family lines of Jewish priests who alone may conduct sacrifices. Next year an organizing convention will be held for those who believe themselves to be of priestly descent. Former Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren, who heads another Temple Mount organization, believes his research has fixed the location of the ancient Holy of Holies so that Jews can enter the Mount without sacrilege. He insists, "I cannot leave this world without assuring that Jews will once again pray...