Word: dory
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Everyone serves in the Israeli army, though only men till the combat positions. This his psychological and political effects, Ben-Dori says, "Young-sters are full of ideas. The army makes them grown-up, deep-thinking." Also, the army is a cultural common dedominator in a country of immigrants. And since what the government decides may determine whether one or one's children will die or live in peace, Israelis are more concerned with and feel a more personal stake in politics than we do here...
Reuben Ben-Dori claims Israel has a historic quest, he seems part of an older generation of romantic settlers. He proudly boasts of having brought the first tractor to the Holy Land. Young citizens though even on an traditionally idealistic kibbutz, are not prone to Biblical visions of a "greater Israel." Shalom, 28 years old, says "We have a state because we're strong. That...
Fizzled Poseurs. Larry and Sarah's friends have a nodding acquaintance with both self-destruction and self-fulfillment. Robert (Christopher Walken) writes plays, lives off women; Connie (Dori Brenner) wants to be a novelist and plays nursemaid to her black gay pal Bernstein Chandler (Antonio Fargas), who claims his mother named him after the Jewish family for whom she worked 30 years as a maid. All of them keep an eye on the fragile, mad-eyed actress Anita (Lois Smith), who periodically attempts suicide...
Died. Yaakov Dori, 73, leader of the Israeli army that fought for independence in 1948; after a stroke; in Haifa. A refugee from the pogroms of Russia, Dori immigrated with his family to Palestine in 1905, later joined the Jewish Legion serving under British army command in World War I. Discharged in 1921 for fighting Arabs without British approval, he joined the Haganah, an underground Zionist force, and by 1939 had become its commanding officer. When independence was proclaimed in 1948, the Haganah became Israel's official defense force and Dori its first chief of staff...
...introducing Dolly on Broadway way back in January 1964, and for her 1,271 other glorious performances here in town and all over these United States. Thanks go also to Mary Martin for her Dollys in Dallas, the Midwest, on the Coast, Viet Nam, London and Tokyo (Haro, Dori!). A hearty kiss goes also to Ginger Rogers for those 18 swell months on Broadway after Carol went on tour, and looking to the future-as I am wont-for sharing the forthcoming two-shows-a-night binge with Dorothy in Vegas. How about that...