Word: jewishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nozick said when he was an undergraduate at Columbia he was an atheist and thought special concern for Jewish issues was parochial. He said the Black student movement and sympathy for Israel during the Six Day War helped make particularist principles acceptable to American Jews. "Whe I was an undergraduate, I would have avoided this lecture," he added...
...among politicians, he did attract attention, with major interviews on all three networks and nightly appearances on the newscasts. He also made gains at a series of quiet meetings in New York. He talked with groups of blacks, Jews and business leaders. Howard M. Squadron, president of the American Jewish Congress, concluded guardedly that "Brown says the right things." During a three-hour dinner with Mayor Edward Koch, Brown impressed one of the mayor's aides as being "neither flaky nor overly philosophical; he's a good politician." Nevertheless, Koch, long a Carter supporter, indicated he still favored...
...merely been waiting for something more rewarding to occupy her energies and her realistic, feisty if untutored mind. The character of Reuben, the organizer, represents a triumph of sorts. He is the first accurate representation onscreen of a type that has proved to be dramatically elusive: the New York Jewish intellectual-activist. Such a person is usually the odd man out, an exotic everywhere in America beyond his native streets. Yet frequently he is capable of winning out over prejudice and suspicion with his quick wit and his obvious humanity...
...beneath the family squabbles and Art Buchwald routines, Good as Gold is a savage, intemperately funny satire on the assimilation of the Jewish tradition of liberalism into the American main chance. It is a delicate subject, off limits to non-Jews fearful of being thought anti-Semitic and unsettling to successful Jewish intellectuals whose views may have drifted to the right in middle...
Even Harris Rosenblatt, raised with Gold in Brooklyn and now a homogenized bureaucrat, gets in a lick. "I used to be Jewish, you know," says Rosenblatt. "I used to be a hunchback," says Gold. "Isn't it amazing," says Rosenblatt, "how we've both been able to change...