Word: jew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...author of a previous religious novel, The Carpenter Years (and non-fiction books on Martin Buber and The Natural and the Supernatural Jew), Arthur Cohen knows all the odds, creative and commercial. Yet he has taken on a saint and a fable in fiction, and won -apparently by sheer moral passion...
Particular Good. In a remarkable fantasy-within-a-fantasy, titled The Legend of the Last Jew on Earth, Cohen completes the persecution theme...
...gesture, he invited 25 leading Senators and Representatives to a luncheon at Blair House, his guest quarters in Washington. The meal was prepared by a Soviet chef, and over caviar, roast beef and five varieties of Russian wines and liqueurs, he tried to convince American Congressmen that nearly every Jew who had applied had been allowed to leave. Although Soviet emigration policy has eased markedly under pressure from the U.S., some of the Congressmen feared that the liberalization might end if M.F.N. were granted. Asked about this, Brezhnev declared: "We came here to consolidate good things, not to quarrel...
...chief editor, replies, in effect, "balderdash." He told the Philological Society that "we are concerned with the accurate recording of language, not what people think it should be." Burchfield's chief concession to his lexicographical critics has been to include in the supplement's definition of Jew a historical note explaining how Jews became known as moneylenders in England during the Middle Ages.* If by chance Shloimovitz does win his case, the O.E.D. will undoubtedly have other aggrieved readers in the courtroom. Among them might be thousands of irate Yorkshiremen. "Yorkshire," says the dictionary, is sometimes used...
...this point, reasoning that he would stand no chance of survival if captured by the Germans as Franz Levai, Austrian Jew, he changed his name to Frank Lloyd. It is said that he chose the name because of its reassuring similarity to Lloyd's of London. On Dday, his unit landed in Normandy. A brave and aggressive soldier, Lloyd fought in the tank corps across Europe. In a tank explosion in Germany shortly before the war's end he was severely wounded and temporarily blinded...