Word: jews
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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McGanney does quite well to quote my comment about Anne Frank. Let me explain. I had played the same middle-aged British pun-mixing snob in six shows running. Playing a German Jew whose family dies at Nazi hands presented a challenge. Its being "conservative", for me, made it "experimental...
...guarded. For example, Miller's first wife Mary Slattery, the mother of two of his children, appears only at the moment he is about to marry her. Their courtship and several years of living together -- no small adventure in those times for a Roman Catholic from Ohio and a Jew from New York City -- take place almost entirely offstage...
...Borge played the piano between monologues. Jackie Mason is only Jackie Mason, a hunched and tuneless figure towering some 5 ft. 4 in. above sea level and speaking with the Yiddish locutions of an immigrant who just completed a course in English. By mail. His targets are ecumenical. On Jews and Christians: "You show a gentile carrots and peas, he eats carrots and peas. You show a Jew carrots and peas: 'Wait a minute. Why are there so many carrots compared to the peas?' " Television weather persons: "You're dying to know if it's hot or cold, and instead...
...Middle East. The ultra-Orthodox Shas Party, which has only four Knesset seats, seized the occasion to seek a major concession. In return for supporting Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's opposition to new elections, Shas demanded that Shamir's Likud bloc back the Orthodox definition of who is a Jew. Shamir tried to ram through a vote to that effect in July, but a handful of Likud members defected and the measure was narrowly defeated. The haredim, however, are likely to continue pressing the issue until they win. If the ultras' position were to prevail, it would provoke widespread anger...
...third of the earth's inhabitants but also the first such revolution among the world's nonwhite peoples? And how is it possible to omit the Holocaust, which not only led to the state of Israel and thus to the modern Middle East, which not only changed every Jew's conception of his identity and his place in the world, but which virtually demands a re-evaluation of the nature and destiny of mankind itself? By contrast, how could any list of the century's greatest events include Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic? Heroic though it was, symbolic though...