Word: jewishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beginning, Simon's writing has contained deep autobiographical overtones. For instance, the one-room attic apartment in Barefoot in the Park resembles the garret he and his wife lived in during the first year of their marriage. His characters, like their creator, tend to come from New York Jewish middle-class backgrounds. "Everything I write is about New York," he notes...
...accusations just don't apply to us." Schmertz said, adding "It's a disservice to the process of trying to recruit Jewish students into our corporation. It gives them the feeling that Mobil might not be a good place for them to work...
...perceived his theory, which did not rely on the old Newtonian absolutes, as an attack on religion. Boston's Cardinal O'Connell charged that relativity was "cloaked in the ghastly apparition of atheism." For a rabbi who asked him frankly if he believed in God, Einstein recalled a famous Jewish apostate: "I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of all that exists, not in the God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings...
...light of his own lack of belief in formal religion, the fact that he was a Jew. But criticism abroad was muted compared with that in Germany, where Jews were being made the scapegoats for loss of the war and Einstein's pacifism was bitterly remembered. Einstein and his "Jewish physics" became the object of increasingly scurrilous denunciations. Fellow German scientists turned their backs on him?with the notable exception of a few men like Planck. Shortly after Hitler took over in 1933, Einstein, who was abroad at the time, accepted a post at the newly created Institute for Advanced...
...dramatize normal black middle-class life - at home, work, college and war. For TV viewers weaned on The Jeffersons, their lives may come as a revelation. Roots 11 shows blacks sharing the same heart breaks, career ambitions and class conflicts as whites. A subplot about a Rus sian Jewish merchant (George Voskovec) in the South also sets up parallels between blacks and foreign immigrants as both groups deal with the problem of assimilation into American culture. But Roots 11 does not try to turn blacks into dark-skinned whites. When Haley's forebears enter middle-class professions, and even...