Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jewish Republican from Brookline built his political reputation on an aggressive anti-busing platform, and he has gained a reputation as holding a strong anti-minority line, coming out against such programs as affirmative action...
Begin, meanwhile, had flown down to Andrews on a U.S. Air Force DC-9 from New York, where he had spent two days resting and meeting with American Jewish leaders. Begin bounded out of the plane for a reception virtually identical to Sadat's. But there were some differences: as a Premier, Begin was entitled to a 19-gun salute instead of the 21 accorded to a chief of state like Sadat. And at Camp David, after pecking Rosalynn on both cheeks, the Polish-born Israeli placed a courtly kiss on the First Lady's hand. Carter then...
...some U.S. experts speculated that it might run as long as five or six days and not end until early this week. Before the conclave began, it was feared that considerable negotiating time would be lost as each leader observed his own Sabbath: Friday for Moslem Sadat, Saturday for Jewish Begin and Sunday for Christian Carter. But the weekend did not bring the talks to a standstill...
Philip Roth proved that New Jersey, summer camp and a claustrophobic family life could inspire brilliant satire. Whether they could inspire tragedy remained in doubt until Julia Markus addressed herself to the theme of growing up Jewish in Jersey City. Tragedy requires the decline of a hero, and Markus has invented one-however low key-in this somber, eloquent novel: Irving Bender, the son of East European Jews for whom the immigrant dream of success had come to nothing. "Irv's father drank and gambled and died," she writes in her terse idiom. "The mother got along...
There is only one scene--two old Jewish men on bench in a park--and no breaks. The piece just winds up and up and up with rolling variations on melodic conversation--the kind of talk you know immigrant grandfathers share in their...