Word: kegan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sixth-grade teacher at P.S. 124 had been a robust baritone named Miss Kegan. That first day at P.S. 40 they gave us the afternoon off. The first thing we did was line up on the sidewalk across from P.S. 124, chanting "Mary Ann Kegan" up at the windows in an outburst of affectionate disrespect...
...relief to find that the other two articles in in this issue did not follow Mr. Shay's pattern of insobriety. But here the relief ended. Charles Vernoff's Defense of Neo-Hasidism answers Judith Kegan's diatribe against halfway-Hasids, which appeared in Mosaic last spring. Miss Kegan, says Vernoff, overstates her case when she debunks students who are only superficially enchanted with traditional Jewish mysticism. He argues instead that these spiritual dabblers ought to be encouraged, since they may eventually find true faith. Writing from palpable ignorance on this subject. I am unable to say whether Vernoff speaks...
...Martin Robbins' two poems, "Letter From a Place Near Siberia" struck me as an effective and scary weaving together of the phrases that terrify men in this century. Judith Kegan has two poems, both pleasant; the second's light, sophisticated banter is damaged by a lapse into treacle in the last two lines. And Neal Kozodoy has the Hebrew text and his own translations of some poems by Uri Zvi Greenberg, an Israeli poet. I can't read Hebrew, but parts of the translations makes me wish I could. Other parts are just puzzling...
...Class of '62 to receive their gold keys are Mrs. Wendy D. Gudwin of 63 Garden St. and Great Neck, N.Y., Roberta M. Hirshon of Mattapan, Annette J. Hollander of Barnard Hall and New York City, Alice B. Kasakoff of 63 Garden St. and Chicago, Ill., Judith F. Kegan of 1588 Massachusetts Ave. and Evanston, Ill., and Patricia A. Marks of Cabot Hall had South Orange...
Hopefully, in future issues Mosaic will devote less space to translations of already established Jewish writers and more to creative writing on Jewish themes by undergraduates. Also, the editors of Mosaic should guard against a tendency toward parochialism. Some of the writing in the magazine, most notably Miss Kegan's essay on Hasidism and neo-Hasidism, reads as if written primarily for Mosaic's editors and writers, rather than for the general Jewish audience. Only self-indulgence by the editors can justify the magazine's almost exclusive concern with the Yiddish, eastern European aspects of Jewish life, feeling, and culture...