Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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JACK Gwillim is a kindly, virtuous King Duncan; and it is a felicitous touch to have him embrace Macbeth before retiring to his final sleep. Kurt Garfield's bleeding Captain sounds more Jewish than Scottish, Theodore Sorel's Angus is poorly spoken too, and Richard Backus' Donalbain is weak. Jeanne Bartlett is adequate as the ill-fated Lady Macduff, and William Larsen's old Siward is a decided asset. Macduff's son (Glenn Zachar) is far too old; so is Fleance (Keith McDermott), who seems to be assisted in his escape by the mysterious Third Murderer engaged to kill...
...emigration of its citizens. The amendments are primarily aimed at the arbitrary tax that the Soviet Union levies on citizens wishing to emigrate, most of whom have been Jews. Support for the amendments is based on political, ideological and humanitarian concerns. But probably the strongest pressure has come from Jewish lobbying and politicians' concern over the "Jewish vote...
...SOVIET JEWS. There is no Jewish problem, no Jewish question here ... Some of my closest friends from school days onward have been Jews...
Author Schaeffer makes readers count this cost in hard, undevalued emotional currency. It is no easy achievement, because she has chosen, or (in the event that much of Falling is autobiographical) has been stuck with, material long since worn to cliches - Elizabeth's immigrant Jewish grandparents, the New York middle-class scene, an unsuccessful engagement, a suicide attempt, and a prolonged psychoanalysis...
...American Jewish Congress, on behalf of several male academics, filed several charges this year with HEW of "reverse-discrimination." In December, Stanley Pottinger, director of the Office for Civil Rights under HEW, said that the affirmative action efforts for women and minorities were "losing ground" to a growing rhetorical backlash from male faculty members and administrators...