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...developing program reflects "the new direction of the Ed School to reaffirm its interest in schools" by supporting principas and exploring the idea of leadership. Marya Levenson, a doctoral student at the Ed School, said yesterday...
DIED. Sam Levenson, 68, humorist and matzo-barrel philosopher, whose monologues and bestselling books celebrated the folklore of New York Jewry and gently spoofed the absurdities of modern family life; of a heart attack; in Brooklyn. A teacher of high school Spanish for eleven years, Levenson amused his pupils by recounting tales of his poor but happy childhood and strict but loving parents. ("Our menu at mealtime offered two choices-take it or leave it.") After he turned his classroom routines into a nightclub act, the portly, bow-tied comedian was an instant hit on television and host...
...Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What, Levenson...
...Levenson the political movements in China and in the United States were not separable from the struggles of people defining their relations to their pasts and the worlds around them. Levenson publicly stated his opposition to American involvement in Vietnam from 1965 on. But he was moved more by the larger question, which persists in China still as it did in his own choices to live as a Jew, an intellectual and an American: is there a happy medium between a feckless cosmopolitanism (hampered by the "fact that the cosmos was somebody else's"); and a terrifying isolation that...
...Levenson answered--his critics and his question--with a cry of hope found in the text of lectures that were never given...