Word: israel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...INDIAN WANTS THE BRONX. A new and gifted playwright, Israel Horovitz, has taken the tiger of violence that prowls the New York streets. and released it on the stage with terrifying veracity as two young punks savage an East Indian...
HEIFETZ-PIATIGORSKY CONCERTS: DVORAK'S PIANO QUINTETTE IN A, and FRANÇAIX: STRING TRIO (RCA Victor). Piatigorsky's full-throated cello conducts a civilized but passionate conversation with the violins of Heifetz, Israel Baker and Joseph de Pasquale and Jacob Lateiner's piano. In fact, all five musicians have a meticulous sympathy for Dvorak's buoyant chamber work, which is permeated by Czech folk music, or dumka ("little thought"), the unpretentious but satisfying Slavic themes that delighted Dvorak. The Françaix String Trio, on the other side, has little to offer but excellent musicians...
...civil war. Some of the loudest dissenters from any U.S. military presence in Southeast Asia were the most militant interventionists when the Arab-Israeli war erupted last June. For them the U.S. responsibility was plain: it called for warships at Aqaba, for guns and planes as fast as Israel might need them...
...Dakar (swordfish in Hebrew) had just been completely modernized and sold to Israel after 20 years of service in Britain's Royal Navy. She was only three days out of Haifa on her maiden voyage under the Israeli flag when disaster struck without warning or explanation. Hardly had search-and-rescue operations been mounted for the Dakar when next day the Minerve suffered a similar fate during a training exercise. The 850-ton French submarine, commissioned in 1964 and named after the Roman goddess of wisdom, left no more clues to what happened than the Dakar. Ruling out possible...
...least a dozen better-than-average sculptors are currently building next-to-invisible sculptures. Iowa's Hans Breder structures plastic and chrome-plated cubes into flashing games of chance. Minnesota's Robert Israel inflated interest at Manhattan's Whitney Museum with an immense sausage-shaped bubble of clear vinyl that wallowed about an entire, blue-spotlit room. Even Louise Nevelson, the Marianne Moore of modern American sculpture, has won new fans with a current exhibit consisting of the famed Nevelson wall constructions done no longer in wood but in clear Plexiglas...