Word: jew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accused showed up wearing what looked like judges' robes. They irked Hoffman by calling him "Julie." Often their words and actions were vicious. While Assistant Prosecutor Richard Schultz was examining one witness, he claims, "Rennie Davis moved over and kept whispering things like 'You dirty fascist Jew...
...Every Western Jew is ready to fight to the last Israeli." That remark, made last week in a House of Commons committee room to 500 Laborite "Friends of Israel," seemed calculated to start a riot...
When another angry listener accused him of saying "Is-rye-eel" in the Arab manner, Brown quickly responded: "I pronounce it the way my Jewish father-in-law pronounces it." Furthermore, he added, "I can't tell an Arab from a Jew. They are both Semitic peoples. They both have noses as long as mine...
...Agnon, 81, Israel's most honored author and only Nobel laureate; of a heart attack; in Rehovot, Israel. Born in Galicia, victim and observer of half a century of stateless limbo in Europe, Agnon wrote with the wisdom of experience in his touching chronicles of the contemporary Wandering Jew-the nameless exile returned to the European town of his youth in A Guest for the Night; Kafkaesque fables of Jews transplanted from an ancient land to modern Israel in Two Tales. A virtual unknown in the West until 1966, when he won the Nobel Prize for Literature...
...dramatize their defiance, the defendants played guerrilla theater. When Judge Hoffman refused to let them bring a birthday cake into the courtroom for Bobby Seale, Rennie Davis yipped: "Hey, Bobby, they've arrested your cake." Yippie Hoffman, brutally playing on the judge's sensitivities as a fellow Jew, cried: "You are synonymous with Adolf Hitler." Dellinger peered at a testifying prosecution witness and said "Bull-"-provoking a scuffle in which two spectators were arrested. No matter how dubious the law under which they were tried, no matter how antagonistic the judge, the defendants were striking...