Word: hebrew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fired Charles I. Stastny two weeks ago for extending an absence from his classes without permission. Statsny, who received tenure from CWU in 1968, left for four days in early January to speak at the Hebrew University Law School in Jerusalem. He had permission to be absent only two days...
...comedian, now 73, somehow missed being confirmed 60 years ago. Rabbi Seymour Rosen was delighted to go to the gambling casino where Youngman was appearing to correct the oversight, and Tenor Jan Peerce was cantor. "Today," cracked Youngman, after reading his prescribed prayers in phonetic Hebrew, "I am a boy." Years ago, he insisted, "you got a fountain pen when you were bar mitzvahed. Now you get a computer." But the punch lines were watered with tears when the new kid in town tried to be serious before 300 friends. "Today," he concluded tearfully, "I am the proudest...
...Frolics and Detours of a Short Little Hebrew Man." There is admiration for the creator of the 2,000-Year-Old Man, but it is undermined by the portentous remark that "by playing a character who was immortal, Brooks may have staked his principal claim to immortality as a comedian." And why, after recalling the freebooting hilarity of Young Frankenstein, does Tynan resonate like a Viennese psychiatrist? "We have seen that Brooks is driven by a fear, amounting to hatred, of mortality; and what is Young Frankenstein but the story of a man who succeeds in defeating death...