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Judaism isn't going to disappear, but the "nice, white, Protestant, American Jew" will be increasingly evident, his life progressively "less difficult, and far less exciting," Harold Weisberg, Dean of the Brandeis Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, said last night...
Where distinctive cultural differences like Jewish food or dress are preserved, they are no longer regarded by Jews as divine commandments, but more often as "simple, picturesque ritual," Handlin commented. However, the Jew's changing identity has not been accompanied by actual conversion or less affiliation but instead a different interpretation of his Jewishness, he said...
...Jew's identity is no longer circumscribed as it was in previous generations, Handlin said. "Everybody must belong to something, a church or synagogue, but each man can essentially write his own ticket," he stated...
...last week's Satevepost, Lennon's "graphospasms" were even hairier than the songs he helps write. "Little did he nose," writes Lennon "that the next day a true story would actually happen." He peoples his retelling of Treasure Island with Large John Saliver, Small Jack Hawkins, Blind Jew, Cpt. Smellit and Sten Gunn. "As far as I'm conceived," he says on the book jacket, "this correction of short writty is the most wonderfoul larf I've ever ready." A larf all the whee to Barclays', no dute...
...Watson, come here"). Dr. Winternitz himself was in a state of passionately transferred loyalties. Born a Jew, he had become what Freud, in his study on the technique of wit, called ante-Semitic. "When my mother died, he thought he would improve his social position by marrying a Whitney, but I don't think he did," Mary says drily, leaving no doubt as to her opinion of the high life at New Haven, Conn., which the Winternitz-Whitney family maintained...