Word: j
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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KING LEAR is the best work that the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater Las ever offered. Lee J. Cobb, aided by a supporting cast that truly supports, gives the best performance of his career in the title role...
Eugene Paul Getty, son of Oil Billionaire J. Paul Getty, also lives in Marrakesh. Regular Moroccan visitors include Queen Fabiola of Belgium, Baron Guy de Rothschild, Barbara Hutton, Yul Brynner, David! Rockefeller, Lee Radziwill, Fiat Boss Gianni Agnelli and Author Truman Capote, who advises anyone contemplating a Moroccan trip to "have yourself vaccinated against typhoid, liquidate your bank account, and say goodbye to your friends. God knows when you will see them again...
What this modest example suggests is that the American Jew is capable of responding creatively to the challenge presented by black antiSemitism. "We Jews, of all peoples," says Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld of Cleveland's Fairmount Temple, "should be able to feel empathy with Negro frustration and anger. When we look deep into our Jewish conscience, we admit that it is right that the Negro should expect more of us." Lelyveld has given his share; as a civil rights worker in Hattiesburg, Miss., five years ago he was attacked and severely beaten by two white men. Says Charles E. Silberman...
...system does away with the post of president and divides responsibility largely among three vice chairmen, who report only to Chairman Fred J. Borch, the man who gave up the presidency but remains very much the chief executive. The group's main task is to squeeze more earnings out of G.E.'s steadily increasing sales. Last week in Manhattan, Borch publicly introduced his triumvirate-William Dennler, Jack S. Parker and Herman Weiss. He also reported that sales reached a record $8.4 billion in 1968-double ten years ago-but profits did not keep pace. A preliminary estimate shows...
Robson's novel begins as a chatty account of village life that has charm reminiscent of J. D. Salinger. It soon becomes a vivid nightmare world of putrefying animal corpses and menacing gangs of anonymous attackers. In the end, Backward to the Front of the Day is unsatisfying. In his rage against God, Robson stacks so much against his human characters that they topple toward death before they fully come to life...