Word: let
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sotto voce told his assistant to leave it on. All through the first two acts, Tucker's anger mounted. Finally, just before the third act he announced: "Unless the air conditioning is turned off, I do not sing a note!" Someone mentioned that the audience might leave. "Let them!" Tucker roared. "They must accommodate to me, not me to them. The trouble with this business," he said solemnly as the air conditioning was shut down, "is that it is filled with egotistical maniacs...
...Let this message be heard," he replied, "by strong and weak alike: NO COMMENT...
...Germany Judenrein. One member of the school's board shouted that "we should go down there and throw the blacks out." Speaking for the American Jewish Committee, Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum has solemnly warned: "We put black racists on notice that we are determined to use every legal means to let no one get away with any efforts to inflict pain or suffering on any Jewish person." In the current issue of Commentary, Earl Raab, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council in San Francisco, argues that the black-white confrontation in America raises anew "the Jewish question...
However negative black anti-Semitism may be, it can have a positive aspect for both democracy and the Jew. If the U.S. is to be a genuinely pluralistic society, then its goal is not to assimilate minorities, but to let them?within reason?live together, each in its own way. The Jews have had practice in this. The black is just beginning the course, and it is unfortunate that part of the cost of his tuition must be paid by Jewish tolerance. But so long as U.S. society repudiates the anti-Semitic hostility of the black and prevents it from...
...Let me put it another way. Of course I think anti-Semitism is bad but I think we have more things to be concerned about than making anti-Semitism a priority. In Ocean Hill-Brownsville, people who basically were committed to educating children suddenly now are being charged with antiSemitism. It takes things all out of context. I keep asking myself why it's so repugnant when it becomes black antiSemitism. We know that other groups practice anti-Semitism much more subtly. If every black man in America were an anti-Semite, it would have no real impact...