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...term anti-Semitism was coined by the German Wilhelm Marr in the 1880s and it was meant to distinguish itself from anti-Judaism. Whereas anti-Judaism was seen to be based on religious hatred, the new “enlightened,” “scientific” anti-Semitism was a hatred of the Jews as a race. The old anti-Judaism was outdated; anti-Semitism allowed its adherents to hate the Jews in a modern way. As the Oxford English Dictionary defines it, anti-Semitism is “theory, action, or practice directed against the Jews...
...Beach”). While some press releases for the album have called her a folkie, it wouldn’t be right to lump the versatile MacColl into the cliche of the female folk singer-songwriter; Tropical Brainstorm is Latin-inspired, she’s written songs with Johnny Marr of the Smiths (and sang backup for them) and “They Don’t Know” is pure 60s girl group, a late-1970s recrystallization of the Brill Building sound. Worth checking...
...more than 14 years, Marr worked to stir up interest--and find the financing--to get the project going. In 1990 he at last approached the Mystic Seaport for help; by 1998 a combination of state money and corporate donations allowed building to begin. "He found very interested ears when he came here," Snediker says...
...boat that took two years to build took two dozen years to plan. The idea of re-creating the Amistad was first floated by Warren Marr, former editor of the N.A.A.C.P.'s national magazine, during the 1976 Bicentennial celebrations. That summer, harbors around the U.S. were bobbing with tall ships participating in Operation Sail, and Marr couldn't help noticing the underrepresentation of African Americans in the event. Rebuilding the Amistad, he figured, might be just the way to remedy that...
...survivors speak of the terror and the excitement of playing in a death match. Are we somehow incomplete as people if we do not taste that terror and excitement on the brink? "People are [taking risks] because everyday risk is minimized and people want to be challenged," says Joy Marr, 43, an adventure racer who was the only woman member of a five-person team that finished the 1998 Raid Gauloises, the granddaddy of all adventure races. This is a sport that requires several days of nonstop slogging, climbing, rappelling, rafting and surviving through some of the roughest terrain...