Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nations at odds often share with taunting children and shrewish wives an inspired instinct for the stinging epithet that penetrates and festers. Arab maps sometimes refer to Israel as "Jewish Occupied Palestine." Russians in the U.N. call Nationalist China delegates the "representatives of the Kuomintang." And for some twelve years since the acrimonious partition of the Indian subcontinent, the Pakistani press, with considered malice and conscientious glee, has called India "Bharat" and referred to Indians as "Bharatis...
...scene is a shabby Orthodox Jewish synagogue in Mineola, L.I., and the tenth man is a young lawyer with no faith in religion, or even in life itself, who has been brought in off the street to make a quorum for morning prayers. Except for an aged rabbi, even the elderly Jews who show up largely lack faith; they come out of habit or boredom, or as to a club where they can gossip and wisecrack and argue various isms. One of them brings his 18-year-old granddaughter, a schizophrenic who has been in and out of asylums...
...play's characters uniformly nice, but exorcism seems a convenient miracle drug, and the happily vanishing young couple suggests the schizophrenia of playwrights who would give meaning to their words and eat them too. In certain ways, The Tenth Man suggests the fine stories of Jewish Fantasist Bernard Malamud (TIME, May 12, 1958) but in the ways that count most, it falls far short of them...
Blocky, sandy-haired Harry Howard, 40, general manager of a Los Angeles machinery company, is president of San Gabriel Valley Lodge 1710 of B'nai B'rith, the national Jewish benevolent association. Last week he filed an appeal with B'nai B'rith Grand Lodge headquarters in Phoenix, Ariz. to prevent his expulsion. The ground for the proposed ouster: Harry Howard is an elder of the Mormon Church; therefore...
Uncorseted Bliss. German-Jewish Papa Stein was a wool merchant, and some would argue that Gertrude was, too. As a baby, Gertrude, wrote her mother, was "a little Schnatterer. She talks all day long and repeats everything that is said or done." At Radcliffe, Gertrude became Philosopher William James's favorite Schnatterer and roamed the classrooms in uncorseted bliss ("She always seemed to like her own fat," a friend later said). She also experimented in what came to be known as automatic writing. This may have inspired her incantatory rhythms and inane repetitions, though Author Brinnin bristles...