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Word: jewish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...domestic affairs, and we cannot expect them to be cooperative when we seek to intervene directly in theirs." Two days later, Valery Panov, former star of the Kirov Ballet, announced that he and his ballerina wife would be allowed to go to Israel. For two years Panov, who is Jewish, and his wife, who is not, had been asking to leave Russia together (see PEOPLE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Barnstorming Across the Middle East | 6/17/1974 | See Source »

...easy to convince the masses that you're an allright dude," he admits. Sometimes he must choose between black solidarity and his own best judgment. Example: the county Democratic committee "had to endorse a black for the county commission even though there was a Jewish fellow who was the better candidate. If we blacks on the commission had taken the stump for the Jewish fellow, we would have been vilified as Uncle Toms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Two Families That Have Made It | 6/17/1974 | See Source »

...Valery Panov, 35. The Kirov Ballet's great dancer and his ballerina wife Galena, 24, were finally issued emigration visas allowing them to go to Israel. The Soviet government agreed six months ago to issue a visa to Panov, who is a Jew, but not to non-Jewish Galena. However, Panov would not leave without his wife, who is expecting their first child. Committees in the West have been campaigning on the Panovs' behalf, and shortly before President Nixon's planned Soviet visit, the U.S.S.R. abruptly announced they could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 17, 1974 | 6/17/1974 | See Source »

...Stendahl Committee's proposal recommended that the present position of Preacher to the University be replaced by three co-equal preachers. The committee report suggested that these three preachers be: a Roman Catholic priest, a Jewish rabbi and a Protestant minister...

Author: By Amanda Bennett, | Title: Mem Church Changes Slowly | 6/13/1974 | See Source »

ALEXANDER PORTNOY complained that he was living in the middle of a Jewish joke--the Jewish joke of his whole life, as told to his shrink Dr. Spielvogel. That joke ended with Spielvogel supplying the punch line: "And now vee may perhaps to begin...

Author: By Phil Patton, | Title: His Life as a Writer | 6/12/1974 | See Source »

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