Word: essays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TULA. A beautiful spinster (Aurora Bautista) is tormented by mixed desire and disgust for her widowed brother-in-law in Spanish Director Miguel Picazo's impeccable first film, an essay on the rigors of virginity Castilian style...
...splendid, succinct and generally balanced appraisal of Jewish life in the U.S., circa 1965, is TIME'S essay on "The New American Jew" [June 25]. You have caught beautifully the pride of being a Jew, the pride of belonging within a great people, the pride of helping to build a nation, and the love of the U.S. Considering the history of the Jews for 57 centuries, this development is a monument to the validity of free institutions. Of course, there is always the danger of euphoria. For, we all know, the evil of anti-Semitism lurks even here...
...your perceptive and otherwise excellent essay, you neglected to include any mention of Zionism. Zionism is not a movement whose goal is to send vast sums of money overseas. It is, rather, a modern manifestation of the ancient messianic movement committed to the preservation and perpetuation of basic Jewish values and ideals, recognizing Israel as the focal point of the totality of Jewish living, a cultural center from which will come a renascence of the Jewish spirit...
...Anti-Semitism in the corporate business world is probably less prevalent than your essay indicates. Many Jews who fail to climb the executive ladder are quick to use anti-Semitism as a cloak to hide their own weaknesses. These people, by helping to keep the fear of anti-Semitism alive among Jews, do more harm to Judaism than George Lincoln Rockwell and the whole American Nazi Party...
...Your truly perceptive Essay "The New American Jew" omits one important aspect, namely that the American Jew is much more at home in the American than in the Jewish culture. Inadequate Jewish education that rarely reaches the high school level and the impact of Hollywood and other mass media are denuding the American Jew of his Jewish qualities...