Word: isaiah
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...were Jewish leaders who did have contact with the Nazis for the Germans established indigenous Jewish chiefs of ghettoes. These people were not necessarily Zionist and to call them collaborators in the destruction of European Jewry is an outrageous bending of what is a complex story laboriously documented in Isaiah Trunk's recent book, Judenrat...
This fat package is about several generations of Southerners, black and white, living on a plantation called Beulah Land (1820 to 1861 et seq.), the name being borrowed from a quotation in Isaiah. It tells of a land truly flowing with milk, honey-and miscegenation. The author has been a playwright (Next of Kin) as well as a minor novelist, and his dialogue demonstrates an admirable ability to leave out the unnecessary clutter that so often drowns sofa-stuffed historicals in sobs and expostulations. His descriptive powers, though, do not rise to such simple things as a squirrel hunt...
...named the Donner Pass College for Women, the author pits a pair of middle-aged Eastern Jewish intellectual males against a covey of young Western Baptist extroverted females. To this year's Donner Pass Symposium for Distinguished Visitors come an obnoxious poet, Fox, and a weary, rueful professor, Isaiah Greene. Greene is at first charmed despite himself by the earnest and buxom simple-mindedness of the girls and their quaint collegiate rituals. What troubles him is the crassness of his odious colleague, the loudmouthed, girl-chasing...
...tried to bring pressure on the U.S. Government. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a registered Jewish lobby, poured out a stream of appeals by mail, telegram and telephone. Jews were urged to contact their Senators and Congressmen to support prompt military and diplomatic aid to Israel. Committee Chairman Isaiah ("Si") Kenen, known as Israel's man on the Hill, called a meeting of some 30 Jewish leaders, after which they urged Congress to pass a resolution accusing the Arabs of starting the war and demanding more military weapons to be shipped to Israel. To date, 67 Senators...
...stage was set by tense pre-meeting procedures as NCLC guards attempted to search all comers. And later, when NCLC speaker Isaiah Scott spoke of slave labor and Baraka, the audience of 80 was quiet, if uneasy...