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...describe Barney Frank as merely witty, intellectual or liberal would be to ignore the complexities that have made him one of the most respected and competent politicians in the state house. Frank, who represents Boston's Back Bay area, has puzzled many observers: a Jew from Bayonne, N.J., who has risen to prominence in one of the most Irish-Catholic cities in the nation. He has lived in the Boston area since he came to the College in 1957 and spent five years at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences working on a doctorate in Government before he moved...
Died. Will Herberg, 75, leading Judaic scholar and sociologist; of heart disease; in Chatham, N.J. Herberg was a professor of philosophy and Jewish studies at New Jersey's Drew University. In his 1955 study Protestant-Catholic -Jew, an innovative interpretation of the role of religion in America that is still widely used in college sociology courses, he noted a religious revival in the U.S. but warned that the major faiths had become secularized, that "believing" was now simply a way of "belonging" in society...
Says Dimitri Simes, director of Soviet Policy Studies at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies, himself a Soviet Jew who left Russia in 1973: "A cautious effort to make the Soviet Union a more tolerant and civilized society is both moral and practical. At the same time, we have to know the limits of our power." In sum, the U.S. cannot and should not hope to change the Soviet system; such a hope or intention could only be highly dangerous. But the U.S. may, by speaking out for its own principles, make Soviet and other Communist...
...mostly business and social lions-known to Atlantans as "Big Mules"-who pay an initiation fee of $4,500 and annual dues of $750. Once mayors automatically became honorary members-if they did not already belong. The tradition was dropped in 1969 with the election of Sam Massell, a Jew. It was not renewed when Maynard Jackson, a black, became mayor...
...that substituted the sufferings of the artist for the anguish of the martyr. Simone was born into the French upper-middle class in 1909. Her father-a physician-and her mother had Jewish backgrounds, though they observed no religious ritual or custom. The child never regarded herself as a Jew. Later she rejected the God of the Old Testament as the sanctioner of cruelty and declared, instead, that her tradition was Christian, French and Hellenic. She also regretted having been born female. Her style of dress was the antichic of radical intellectuals of the '20s and '30s-drab...