Word: leone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dictatorship that denies all its citizens many basic human rights taken for granted in the West. But the Jews are treated worse than most. Despite its slogans about equality. Communism has always been ambivalent on the Semitic question. In the early days, many leading Bolsheviks were Jewish, including Leon Trotsky. Under Stalin...
Jews type Hebrew songs, poems and folklore and pass them on to friends. One of the most popular sources is Leon Uris' Exodus, which is read not for its love story or heroics but rather for its passages on Jewish history. As a sign of solidarity, youngsters began showing up outside synagogues during Hebrew holy days to sing and do Jewish folk dances. Ominously, KGB (secret police) agents also showed up, taking pictures and trailing some of the participants to their homes...
...pitiable musical play adapted by Leon Uris from his bestselling novel Exodus, has been dated both by history and the glut of Jewish musicals trying to emulate the success of Fiddler on the Roof. However morally admirable, it is difficult, 22 years after the event, to work up a passionate present concern over the ordeal of founding Israel. This season, Broadway has seemed like a secular synagogue. Prior to Ari were The Rothschilds (pleasant) and Two by Two (puerile), plus the Yiddish shows Light, Lively and Yiddish and The President's Daughter. To all concerned, shalom and enough already...
...Campaign G.M." The workers in Campaign G.M. raised a ruckus at the last annual meeting and are now ready to begin soliciting proxies for the next one. But General Motors is not waiting. Last week the corporation elected a black to its 23-man board. He is the Rev. Leon H. Sullivan, who was once assistant pastor to Adam Clayton Powell at Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church, and more recently has specialized in persuading or pushing U.S. industry to hire Negro workers. His election raises the number of blacks known to be on boards of major U.S. companies...
...Crimson freshmen also ran away with their meet, losing only two events and sweeping three. Leon Sharpe, Joe Madden, and Dick Simpson were the three top finishers in the long jump, and Joe L?combe, John Ward, and Austin O'Connor scored Harvard points in the high jump...