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...Zionists truly turned Jewish history on its head. For 2,000 years the Jews, often barred from owning land and serving in the military, worked wonders as bankers and merchants. Now we have the Jewish state. The army is among the world's finest, the innovations in agricultural technology are illustrious-and the economy is a mess...
WORLD OF OUR FATHERS by Irving Howe. The finest, most comprehensive book about the Jewish-American experience ever written-or ever likely to be written...
WAGNER: DIE MEISTERSINGER (London. 5 LPs). Sir Georg Solti and an eloquent cast-notably Britain's Norman Bailey as a wise and warm Sachs-present the finest recorded performance yet of this operatic masterpiece...
...energy, pacing and abundance of detail, this story resembles The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968). Wolfe's finest book and the keenest look at the psychedelic '60s yet written. These works suggest that his strongest card may not be satire at all. As entertaining as he is when he stands on the beach and points, Wolfe is most valuable when he journeys inside the whale...
...students as "investors" who try to estimate the yearly earnings they can expect after attending different colleges. The study is reminiscent of the approach to education of Stephen S.J. Hall, onetime hotel chain executive and former vice president for administration at Harvard. Hall touted Harvard as "one of the finest universities in the world as far as the product they turn...