Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GLASS BOOTH. Robert Shaw indulges in some pop psychologizing in this complicated yarn about a Jewish business tycoon in Manhattan who is uncovered as a Nazi war criminal, then brought to trial in Tel Aviv, where he is uncovered again as a Jewish concentration-camp prisoner from World War II. Even the amazingly agile acting of Donald Pleasence and the sensitive direction of Harold Pinter cannot give substance, theatrical or philosophical, to a spurious script...
Riot opens on an interesting enough premise as the audience is introduced to a panel of four "experts." We are told they will conduct a discussion of race relations. All the participants are easily recognized: there is John Benjamin, a Jewish liberal who has been in the vanguard of the civil rights movement; Harley Marshall, the waspish director of a Christian anti-Communist league; Nubo Okuni, an unyielding black militant; and Willie Woods, the epitome of the Negro who's made it. The audience is asked to play the role of their reasonable and sympathetic listeners...
...GLASS BOOTH. Donald Pleasence displays furious intensity in his attack on the role of a Jewish tycoon who masquerades as a Nazi SS officer. But Robert Shaw's insights about victim and victimizer are transparent; his drama toys with the terrible reality of Hitler's final solution instead of illuminating...
SYLVIA KUSHEL Manhattan Sir: Getting rid of "Jewish Power" in the schools of New York will solve but one of poor John's ten plagues. Who will the other nine scapegoats be, pray? C. M. GLASSER Miami Beach Sir: Your gloom about New York reminds me of the Londoners who thought it was the end when the Hilton appeared on the Hyde Park skyline...
...contrast, Lowenstein ran his campaign with storefronts in all Fifth District towns, manned mostly by Jewish mothers and high school students. The workers, canvassing their neighborhoods, opposed Hampton on every point. They called for the unconditional cessation of the bombing of North Vietnam and the formation of a representative coalition government in South Vietnam. Lowenstein himself denounced the war as "the greatest tragedy of American foreign policy in many decades...