Word: kibbutz
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McCleery wants to entertain in Hardesty Park by revealing the clever way a young husband-wife duo comes to terms with its conflicting yearnings to stay together, despite a sour marriage. The action in the play takes place on an idyllic corporation kibbutz, tucked into the folds of rural Connecticut. The husband and wife team has been selected by Fletcher Hardesty, a stodgy opinionated executive, to run his fiefdom after his retirement. Roger, the husband loves his job, but then he's got all the responsibility. Wife Pat, a talented aggressive careerist who's got the chance to make...
...turned out, the independence-day parade was their last chance. Even then, Ben-Gurion's health had begun to fail. Too feeble to stay at the Sde Boker kibbutz in the red-roofed bungalow he had occupied alone since Wife Paula's death five years before, he returned two months ago to his other home in Tel Aviv. He was working there on the third volume of his collected letters when he suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage two weeks ago that left him paralyzed on his right side and unable to speak. He was rushed to Tel Hashomer...
...model of social justice and democracy. From the earliest years of his Zionist agitation Ben-Gurion pleaded for agreement between Jews and Arabs, provoking right-wing attacks that called him a doctrinaire socialist and deracinated cosmopolitan. In the last years of his retirement in Sde Boker, a kibbutz collectively engaged in making the Israeli desert bloom, Ben-Gurion still tried to see both sides of every question. If he'd been a young Arab, he remarked privately, he might have joined the fedayeen...
Daniel H. Rothstein '77 unpacked his bags and settled into his Wigglesworth room six weeks ago to begin his freshman year at Harvard. Yesterday he packed those same bags and left Cambridge for what may be six months of volunteer work on an Israeli kibbutz...
Candidates who applied for service were screened on the basis of awareness of kibbutz working conditions and willingness to pay their own travel costs, with no consideration given to personal political philosophy, a spokesman for Sherut La'am, the organization processing volunteers, said yesterday...