Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four Odets plays to appear on Broadway in 1935, Awake and Sing depicts a Bronx Jewish family of the early depression, stifled by conditions they won't try to change. Jacob, the grandfather, has taken what little Marx he knows to heart, and implores his family to leave the world better off than when they found it. But it takes Jacob's death--an apparent suicide--to convince his two grandchildren, Hennie and Ralph, to free themselves...
...Massachusetts and a hero in New York," he said while we sifted through his myriad news clippings. He showed me letters of congratulations from John Lindsay and Jacob Javits after his successful challenge of New York's birth control laws, and his copies of letters from EMKO Pharmaceutical Company, manufacturer of a contraceptive foam, which showed he was their "Eastern clinical director...
...Tough. Gardner was referring to every facet of American life, from the turbulent cities through the quarrelsome Congress to the Viet Nam war, which sparks most of the venom and hostility in the American air. Gardner is not the only one who is bothered. New York's Senator Jacob Javits called on President Johnson to deliver an "extraordinary State of the Union message" to resolve American doubts and dissent over the war. But the President seems to prefer a different tactic. He is deploying his most influential aides in a verbal counterattack...
...concerned that the pairing would strike voters as a little too artful. Actually, while the two are far apart in their political philosophies, they are by no means incompatible. "Keep in mind that Nelson is not of the liberal wing of the party," says New York's Senator Jacob Javits, who decidedly is. "He is more of a moderate Republican than he is a liberal. He could accept Reagan ideologically." Rockefeller himself cautioned friends to take the Californian seriously after his 1,000,000-vote victory last year. "When he gets engaged with the realities of being a Governor...
...wipe Thomas E. Dewey's shoe polish from their faces," writes Shannon, has any politician enjoyed so promising an opportunity to make his influence felt. But Bobby has written "a record of defeat, inconsequence and confused purposes" in the state. And, warns Shannon, "if Nelson Rockefeller, Jacob Javits and John Lindsay can defeat Robert Kennedy's party in New York, they may be the men to defeat it in the nation...