Word: leone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...path was not an easy one, for Judaism is not a proselytizing religion; according to the frequently quoted words of 4th century Rabbi Helbo: "Proselytes are as hard for Israel as leprosy." Reform Rabbi Nussbaum set Actress Taylor reading the Bible and A History of the Jews, by Abram Leon Sachar, president of Brandeis University. He also assigned her other books, e.g., What Is a Jew?, by Morris Kertzer, and Basic Judaism, by Milton Steinberg. And they discussed the ancient traditions and modern problems of the people of Israel...
...life and death of Leon Trotsky, a kind of Marxist Macbeth, have been made into a novel by U.S. Author Bernard (The Late Risers, In Deep) Wolfe, who was one of Trotsky's aides in the years before the inevitable assassin caught up with him in his Mexico hideaway...
...some principle by which the names have been changed to protect the guilty, Leon Trotsky, whose real name was Lev Davidovich Bronstein, in this novel is called Victor Rostov. But there is no doubt that the book is about the chess-playing, intellectual Commissar of War (1918-25) who lost his long struggle for power with Stalin. Trotsky became the grand heretic of a religion whose god is the state; it was his peculiar hell that he never ceased to believe in the religion that had made him its principal devil...
...sharpest backfire came for a pair of Carters. Democrat Steven V. Carter, 43, of Leon, Iowa, listed his 19-year-old son Steven as his public-relations assistant, at a salary of $11,872.26 a year. Steve's job, explained Congressman Carter proudly, is to "take care of the folks who come in from Iowa, let them know what I'm doing, help them enjoy themselves." Young Carter, a part-time prelaw student at nearby George Washington University, insists that he puts in 40 hours a week on the job-although his morning class schedule scarcely permits...
Meanwhile, Gertrude worked on psychological projects. She collaborated with Leon M. Solomons, a graduate student working on his doctorate in philosophy. Their first attempt, which was "connected with a tuning. Fork," failed because neither had an ear for music. Their second project, on fatigue, proved no more successful. Gertrude next tested motor automatism in the non-psychology, or "normal" student...