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...Member Richard L. Gordon, a professor at Pennsylvania State University who is Jewish and has a paralyzed right arm, said he was "disturbed" by Watt's remarks. Panelist Julia Walsh, a Washington investment counselor, said she resented the implication "that I am the token woman." David Linowes, a Jew and a professor of economics at the University of Illinois, and Andrew Brimmer, a black and a former member of the Federal Reserve Board, called Watt's remarks "unfortunate...
Another gap in the record seems to have been designed to cosmeticize Polish antiSemitism. The country's once vast Jewish community is neglected, except for brief mentions that downgrade its economic and cultural contributions. Jews are usually characterized as moneylenders or itinerant musicians, although they were the bulwark of the country's middle class during the 16th and part of the 17th centuries. The harsh restrictions on Jews and the frequent pogroms from the mid-17th century onward are summarized in four words: "Animosities did sometimes flare." Allowances are made for a German SS officer: "In his favor...
...director-producer-actor-author, who is 81, was raised to be a wanderer; his mother was Welsh-Irish, and his father was an Alsatian Jew who was an international speculator. John Houseman spoke four languages as a child, was educated as a privileged Englishman, won an Oxford scholarship in modern languages, but went instead to Argentina to live among gauchos, returned to London, and learned the international grain trade. He was on the point of becoming wealthy as a grain speculator in the U.S. when the Crash of '29 bankrupted his company. His entry into the performing arts occurred...
...some ways, Zelig is just the latest dose of the standard Woody Allen potion. (Some of the more recent disasters like A Midsummer's Night Sex Comedy excepted.) The film focuses in on a New York neurotic Jew who bumbles along with one-liners trying to cope with his problems. Leonard Zelig's chief disorder is that he wants to be liked by everyone. It starts when he feels compelled to join in a discussion of Moby Dick although he has never read the book. Zelig's condition worsens until he assumes the characteristics of the people he is with...
...distance from experience to fiction so short. For Kafka, all fantasy is rooted in the personal and the everyday: the miserable home, the suffocating office, the unconsummated affair and, below all, the stale gingerbread city of Prague. Here he was three times an outsider: a solitary, a Jew and a writer in German rather than Czech...