Word: gelin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After voting for the CUE members, ERG selected three co-chairmen to guide the group's future activities. Debra Gelin '79, Robin Hacke '80 and Bonnie Norman '80 were chosen by lot from six candidates...
...weeks now, I've been wanting to sort through my thoughts on being Jewish during the holiday season and Deborah Gelin's good-natured article in The Crimson's Holiday Supplement touched one of my more sensitive nerves. The Christmas tree in Mather dining hall does bother me, but I'm more concerned by the possibility that I'm being trivial or overly-serious--a possibility that Gelin raises and that I acknowledge. This is the Jewish holiday anguish, and Harvard Jews exhibit some of the standard reactions...
...second group, which Gelin seems to represent, feel that they have a clearer, less emotional perspective on the season. Christmas is simply more fun than Hanukkah, so any reasonable person will prefer Christmas. The holiday generates a lot of warmth, and besides, it's been totally secularized (to the chagrin of many Christians); so why not choose Christmas? Well, it never occured to me that Christmas was mine to choose. The birth of Jesus Christ, Savior, Son of God--I'm not sure, but he doesn't look Jewish...
Laurent (Benoit Ferreux) is the youngest son of a prosperous Dijon gynecologist (Daniel Gelin) and his Italian wife (Lea Massari). Laurent's brothers are well-bred juvenile delinquents, but despite a pronounced affection for mischief, Laurent is different. Hardly into adolescence, he reads Camus and writes essays on existentialism that vex his schoolmaster-priest (Michel Lonsdale). Father Henri further advances his pupil's education by making tentative homosexual advances during confession, and Laurent's brothers chip in to buy him a bout with a tolerant whore. Laurent-perhaps because of all this frenetic activity-develops a heart...