Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...subpoena I received today on the eve of the elections from the Wood-Rankin Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities, is an obvious political maneuver to discredit the activities of all independent voters in this election, particularly in the contest between Martha Sharpe and Joseph Martin," Shapley declared when he had seen the subpoena...
Cried Dr. Joseph Charles of Haiti: "Fraternity! Luminous entity which comes out of the flame and the heat, may you enlighten this august assembly . . . so that the structure of the future should never take the form of tombs...
...hero, Joseph, is half-English, half-Jewish, and he is made ambivalent enough to see the worst in his adopted people, yet understand and sympathize with their supposed illness. ("But Jewry is a sick race; its disease is homelessness, and can only be cured by abolishing its homelessness.") He can thrill mentally to their achievements in Palestine and at the same time deplore the human product of their experience...
...Arab side is given with understanding and perfunctoriness. Various shades of British opinion in Palestine are flashed, from outright anti-Semitism to militant pro-Zionism. And the Jews range from turn-the-other-cheek scholars to Stern Gang bomb heavers. In the end, Joseph, the hero, is converted to terrorism, but the conversion is not convincing...
...Like Joseph Stalin, George Papashvily was born in Russia's Georgia. Then they became quite unalike: Joseph entered politics, George entered the U.S. In 1945, the Book-of-the-Month Club selected Anything Can Happen-a whimsical, owlish account in Georgian English of George's 20 years of life as an immigrant, dictated by himself, set down by his wife, Helen. Today, Helen runs the Moby Dick Bookshop in Allentown, Pa., and George spends "part of each day at a granite quarry working on an animal figure he designed to commemorate the plight of the world during...