Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stephanie Jacob, piano, in recital. North House, Holmes Hall...
Should he receive the Democratic nomination, Moynihan's probable opponent would be incumbent Senator Jacob Javits...
...consumer and the marketplace; Village Voice Writer Nat Hentoff presides over a course in investigative reporting. Comedian Alan King, who got his start in New York clubs, has lectured on the origins of ethnic humor. Other New York personalities who have taught at the New School: Senator Jacob Javits, Broadway Producer Joseph Papp, former Mayor John Lindsay and Comedian Woody Allen...
...York families-the "Astorocracy"-throw open their gilded doors. Schuyler is allowed into the presence of Mrs. William Astor, contender for the post of society's grandest dame, and notices that her "dead-black hair is not entirely her own." He catches a party glimpse of John Jacob Astor III, "slow but agreeable, and much too red in the face." Wherever he goes, Schuyler is publicly deferential, as befits an aging favor seeker. Privately, this self-described "effete Parisian" fills his journal with barbed, often uproarious observations on this "vigorous, ugly, turbulent realm...
...magazine's name is gleaned from the Book of Genesis reference to the Mesopotamian town of Padan Aram. It was on the road to Padan Aram that Jacob had a vision of a ladder ascending to heaven...