Word: lewins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...protagonist is 25-year-old Daniel Lewin, whose parents, Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, were executed for treason. He and his younger sister Susan were adopted by the Lewins, kind, intelligent people who raised them quietly and conventionally. But there is no appeasing outraged memory. In 1967, when he is supposed to be writing a doctoral dissertation, Daniel is actually compiling a bizarre family history: his parents' ordeal, his blasted childhood, Susan's furious, futile rebellions...
...article last week in Turf World, Antony Parisella, director of mutuels at Belmont Park. said, "The difference between the ordinary bettor and a top gambler like Jules Fink or Larry Darby or S?m Lewin is that when they (Darby et. al.) lose they lose in small handfuls, but when they win they take the money away in wheelbarrows. The ordinary bettor just does not know...
...this principle that, by accident, gave rise to the National Training Laboratories, the first serious entrant in the human potentials movement. In 1946, the Connecticut Interracial Commission sought Lewin's advice in solving the state's interracial problem. With three colleagues, Lewin brought black and white leaders together to discuss their differences...
...because of Lewin's interest in the dynamics of group behavior, he also appointed four observers, with instructions to record their comments after each meeting: how things went, why things went wrong, etc. The conferees insisted that they be allowed to participate in these postmortems. "What happened was that they found the feedback more exciting than the actual event -the conference," says Leland Bradford, former executive director of N.T.L...
...church setting makes The Persians seem like a hushed memorial service for the dead of all wars. Despite an occasionally stilted phrase, the John Lewin free translation is fluent, vivid and clear. The cast performs with tender gravity, and Jacqueline Brookes, in particular, brings affecting dignity to the role of King Xerxes' mother, as does J.A. Preston as the bearer of unbearable news. Underscoring the dialogue like a chorus of tears is the santur music of Composer Nasser Rastegar-Nejad. If someone had commissioned a great poet-playwright to write a drama for a Moratorium Day, this would...