Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what the sinner was. God completely wipes the slate clean. But that only happens if there is repentance, an about-face, a 180° turn. There is no evidence that the former President is doing anything of the kind." Nixon's attitude, complains Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, president of the American Jewish Congress, merely seems to be: "Get this behind me so that I can get on with writing my memoirs and tell that I was right in the first place." Even on Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement that falls next week, sins against one's fellow...
...Southern Cross battled for the America's Cup in Rhode Island Sound, members of the Newport Reading Room were embroiled in a teapot-sized tiff of their own. As a story by Reporter Sally Quinn in the Washington Post had it, New York Senator Jacob Javits, who is Jewish, and his wife Marion were all but tossed out of the tony old club when they arrived for a prerace dance as guests of Nuala and Claiborne Pell, Rhode Island's Democratic Senator. Quinn's intimations of anti-Semitism raised speedy protests from politicians and officials, who promised...
...best buddy all these years in that small Minneapolis apartment house. Valerie Harper's character is now taking up a life of her own in a show of her own in her native New York City. Naturally, since her last name is Morgenstern, Rhoda has a Jewish mother (Nancy Walker) who is a classic yenta. "So how come you're not wearing a bra?" she says to her returning daughter. "Ma, I'm 33 years old." "All the more reason," comes the topper. As a character, Rhoda's ma may be predictable, but good, realistic, almost...
...model imperial civil servant, correct if a little stupid, and his son Carl Joseph becomes a moderately well-meaning lieutenant in an imperial army without much coherence or purpose. He causes the death of his only friend, the regimental surgeon whose memories of his own grandfather--a silver-bearded Jewish innkeeper--remind the lieutenant of the hero of Solferino. Carl Joseph makes love to an older woman, with "the heart of a girl of sixteen...a beautiful secret in a crumbling castle," he runs into debt, leaves the army, is killed in the war, all of it without much coherence...
...also makes an effort to join as many community and social groups as possible; he is already a life member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Elks Club, the Portuguese-American Civic League, the Sons of Italy and the Malden Eagles. He also subscribes to a couple of Jewish news magazines...