Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...needn't look far in the pages of The Crimson for other examples of the phenomenon. (See the recent piece headed "How [President A. Lawrence] Lowell enforced the Jewish quota.") I know many of the investigators mentioned in recent Crimson reporting. The ones I know are good people...
...memoirs An Unfinished Woman, Scoundrel Time and elsewhere--were to Podhoretz symptoms of corruption and dishonor. Podhoretz admired Arendt but eventually broke with her over her famous New Yorker articles on the Adolf Eichmann trial in 1961 and, as Podhoretz saw it, her seeming lack of sympathy for the Jewish victims of the Holocaust...
...unwed mothers and exploitation of the lower classes, to name just a few of the topics sung about onstage, are brought up with a bit of cliche, but are tackled with honest zeal nonetheless. The plot revolves around three families--one upper-class WASP, one black and one immigrant Jewish--who are striving for success and happiness in turn-of-the-century America, which is offering them as much adversity as it is opportunity...
...talented Harlem pianist, and his captivating lover Sarah (Darlesia Cearcy); as well as to the fanatically patriotic immigrant Tateh (Michael Rupert) and his Little Girl (Jenell Slack). The three groups of people--the WASPs in frilly white, of course; the Harlem natives in deep burgundies and blues; and the Jewish immigrants in black--face off against each other in a simple yet intensely symbolic dance routine as they sing about a mysterious and mesmerizing new form of music that is "Giving the nation a new syncopation," called--what else?--ragtime...
Shrier's protagonists, who have grown upcomfortable with secular America despite theirOrthodox upbringing and Jewish schooling, arespending time in Israel after graduation from highschool, theoretically devoted to the study oftraditional Jewish texts. They are exposed to amore radical brand of Orthodoxy, and they do notknow whether change is good, or what change meansfor their unformed identities. Some of the boyschange more than others; some put up a brave frontto protect themselves from change; one boy, it isalleged--and here's the ostensible dramaticmotivation for the play--commits suicide becausehe is confused and distressed by the Yeshivaatmosphere...