Word: jacobe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clientele who filled the rooms, wandered the greenery, searched for mates, did a locust number on the four Lucullan meals a day (including a midnight snack) and cheered the tummlers, a Yiddish word for exuberant entertainers. The performers themselves were a nation of immigrants: David Daniel Kaminski, Aaron Chwatt, Jacob Pincus Perelmuth, Morris Miller, Eugene Klass, Joseph Levitch, Milton Berlinger, Joseph Gottlieb. All are better known under their noms de borscht: Danny Kaye, Red Buttons, Jan Peerce, Robert Merrill, Gene Barry, Jerry Lewis, Milton Berle, Joey Bishop...
STAFF WRITERS: Janice Castro, Edward W. Desmond, Philip Elmer- DeWitt, Guy D. Garcia, Lloyd Garrison, Pico Iyer, Stephen Koepp, Richard Lacayo, Jacob V. Lamar Jr., Sara C. Medina, Jamie Murphy, Barbara Rudolph, Michael S. Serrill, Jill Smolowe, Richard Stengel, Susan Tifft, Amy Wilentz, Richard Zoglin...
Despite the continuing marvel of viewing the Titanic, the scientists never forgot they were touring what is, in effect, a mass grave. "You look at parts of the ship and you get flashbacks -- that Captain (Edward) Smith stood here and (Multimillionaire John Jacob) Astor was there, and that's where they were loading the women and children," Ballard told the Boston Herald. "You remember the staircase scene with people going up and down, and you remember the band playing...
Still, notes former Johannesburg Mayor Monty Sklaar, "you find a terrible anti-black attitude among the lower-income groups. Part of the problem is that they see blacks as a threat to their jobs, and it's getting worse." Jacob Kruger, the owner of a Port Elizabeth engineering company, says he is optimistic about some of the recent reforms but pessimistic about a hardening white attitude that seems to him to be saying "The West has deserted us, so we'll go it alone and do it our way." Concludes Kruger: "I'm afraid that if this attitude wins...
...misimpression may have been created by your report in The Harvard Crimson (page 6) on Friday, May 2, 1986, regarding my reponse to an address by Mr. John Jacob, the President of The Urban League. I did not say that Mr. Jacob was "trapped in nostalgia." Rather, I stated that he should be wary of falling victim to "the treachery of nostalgia." Further, I did not describe the welfare state as "mediocre." Rather, I observed (1) that the welfare state created by the New Deal and the Great Society is a great improvement over the sort of society envisioned...