Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...become politically activist yippies-a trend that Fink welcomes as a sign of growing social involvement-they have begun to distrust him and his men. Abbie Hoffman, one of the founders of the Youth International (Yippie) Party, likens Fink's recipe for peace keeping to that of a Jewish mother: "He throws a lot of chicken soup on the problem and hopes it will go away." Yippie agitators calling themselves the Workshop on Tactical Street Action have taken to trying to provoke Fink's men into breaking up their rallies...
...Braun, the biochemist in The Old System, wonders about the old standards of Jewish values that have led his relatives to both business success and family hostility. He recalls a resentful dying cousin who refused to see a rich brother unless he paid a $20,000 entrance fee to her hospital room. She believed that he had cheated her many years before. The preposterousness of the situation dissolves when brother and sister are reconciled in a scene that conveys forcefully the author's tragicomic sense of life. Even Dr. Braun, the scientist, is "bitterly moved" by the "crude circus...
...charge was absurd and mischievous, but it got a wide audience. Disturbed by evidence of anti-Semitism among Negroes that came with the ghetto riots-when Jewish shops were selectively burned-many Jews felt outrage at both Rhody McCoy and Lindsay, who had championed decentralization. The city's atmosphere, said Lindsay in a citywide TV address, "has in the last week degenerated into intolerable racial and religious tension." William Booth, chairman of the city's Human Rights Commission, was even more specific: "Every day this strike goes on, things are getting worse. You can sense there is much...
...little or no fee; he hopes to cut deeply into his opponent's strength among Negroes. His involvement in gunrunning to embattled Israeli freedom fighters in 1948 also gives him the hope of cracking Javits' near monopoly on; New York's more than 1.7 million Jewish votes. But O'Dwyer remains an all but certain loser to one of the best vote getters in U.S. politics...
...decade that greatest of Americanists and roistering misfit in this town of shut-ins goaded, cajoled, cursed Heimert up the academic ladder, until, just as he reached the top--with Miller, now dead, no longer there to guide him--the same confusions which propelled the middle-class, occasionally Jewish boy to Columbia made him lose his balance and think about climbing down. "When the department voted me tenure," he says, "I went into a four-week down trip. I thought, my god, they've told me what I'm going to be doing for the rest of my life...