Word: jew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spirit away to France will stay free. The hunted Nazi is Kurt Lischka, 65, the wartime Gestapo chief in Paris, who was tried in absentia by a French court in 1950 and sentenced to life imprisonment for his part in the deportation and extermination of 100,000 French Jews. The hunter is Beate Klarsfeld, 35, German-born Protestant wife of a French Jew, who moved to Paris in 1960 and has made a career of trying to bring Nazis to justice...
...inspire his grandson Ralph to build a new world rather than achieve his individual desire for advancement and money. On the other side, Morty embodies his sister Bessie's values as the self-satisfied capitalist who pats his overfull belly draped in his fancy trousers as he complains, "Every Jew and Wop in the shop eats my bread and behind my back says, 'a sonofabitch.'" To complete the group there is the gentle failure of a father who lives in the past, and the small-time gangster with a heart of gold who can't express his more tender feelings...
Chenault's religious beliefs appeared to be a confused amalgam largely of his own devising. Said a Columbus neighbor, Denise Underwood, 20: "One week he was eating this because he wanted to be a Jew; then one week he wouldn't eat this because he wanted to be a Muslim." The core of his murky philosophy was hatred of Christianity. Probably central to his motivation was his sense of inadequacy and need for attention. Only two weeks before the killings he told a friend that he would soon "be all over the newspapers...
...threat to détente. In what can only be construed as a symbolic gesture to mollify U.S. opinion, they released Major General Pyotr Grigorenko, 67, who had been placed in a psychiatric clinic for political crimes five years ago. At the same time, Benjamin Levich, a Jew and a leading Soviet chemist, was told that next year he would receive his long-sought permission to emigrate to Israel. His two sons, both of whom had been harassed by authorities because of their own requests to leave the country, were told they could go before the end of this year...
...undertow. The characters may be caparisoned in quattrocento raiment, but they speak to eternal situations. When Othello says, "I am black/ And have not those soft parts of conversation/ That chamberers have," he escapes temporal boundaries and becomes the chorus of the ghetto. Similarly, Shylock cries, "... Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? ... if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?" The tone of the merchant's queries seems lifted not from ancient Venice but from some current Security Council dispute...