Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back in Switzerland too soon. "I was still playing really sloppily, really lousy," he said. "I was just punching the clock, waiting to go home." His change in attitude towards his commitment to studying came a few months later when he had to play for the opening of the Jewish Center in Berne. "I played the Meditation of Theis by Massine. I was sounding pretty good until just before I had to play, when I became extremely nervous, and my bow began to shake terribly. It was really bad. Afterwards I walked around the Center, looking like I wanted...
...passes many of them along to the council for consideration. A man of remarkable energy, Goldwin also serves Ford as a talent scout and sometime speech writer, helps the Office of Public Liaison set up its "field conferences" with the public, and acts as one White House link with Jewish organizations. He also represents the interests of the arts and humanities to the President; he recently arranged a White House meeting for spokesmen for higher education who were eager to make their resources available for federal programs...
...from the Syrian armed forces for some militarily useful items. He scribbled "F you!" across the order form and returned it to the Syrian embassy in Washington. A few days later, a puzzled military attache called the dealer, inquiring why he had so brusquely refused the order. "I'm Jewish," explained the Californian. "What's that got to do with it?" asked the Arab. "This is business...
...Jews. In September, 1941 at an America First rally in Des Moines, Iowa, Lindbergh declared that the Roosevelt Administration, were seeking to push America into the War. He said that he understood that Jews were bitter about persecution in Germany, but warned, "instead of agitating for war, Jewish groups should be opposing it in every possible way, for they will be among the first to feel its consequences." He had written in his diary two years earlier, after the Crystalnight pogrom. "They (the Germans) undoubtedly have a difficult Jewish problem, but why is it necessary to handle it so unreasonably...
...movie, the lack of serious characters, besides Nick, on whom Mabel's madness can be registered. Both mothers-in-law are one-dimensional, and I'm not sure it's in the nature of mothers-in-law to be to. Eddie Shaw is unbelievably silly as the Jewish doctor who tries to intercode between Mabel and Nick. Mabel's father appears at the dinner to welcome his daughter back from the anylum and we find that her obsession with the children is supplemented by a heavy attachment to him--but the idea is too new and too late, and confuses...