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Similar misfortune has befallen The Angel Levine, Bernard Malamud's pithy and whimsical parable of an elderly Jewish tailor and his war with God. In the film Zero Mostel portrays Mishkin, a decrepit, latter-day Job on whom God has visited terrible plagues. His Manhattan shop has burned to the ground while insufficiently insured. His wife Fanny (Ida Kaminska) is on her death bed and driving him meshugge (crazy) with petty demands. His back is killing him and-ah, cruel Jehovah!-his only daughter has married an Italian. His faith is moribund, and to revive it an unlikely angel...
...Malamud's story. Mostel is especially entertaining doing the tailor-on-the-roof routine that is his forte. But even Zero's comic genius cannot carry the lugubrious sermonizing about black-Jewish relationships and the mawkish comedy that goes with it. In a reverse insult, Levine calls Mishkin "nigger," to which Mishkin replies, "This is the way a Jewish angel talks...
...occasion. For the first time in Harvard's history, the graduates of its distaff campus, Radcliffe, received their diplomas along with the men. And also for the first time, the traditional commencement address in Latin was delivered by a classical scholar in a skirt. Radcliffe's Kirsten Mishkin, 21, a magna cum laude graduate, borrowed a quote from Horace to take this signal honor in stride: "non humilis mulier triumpho" (a woman not humble in triumph...
After her salute to Miss Anthony and the other precursors of Women's Lib, Graduate Mishkin staked out some ground of her very own. It was a very feminine declaration, all in impeccable Latin, that today's woman does not necessarily want to be man's superior, but simply his peer: "Together, let us establish a new society, the foundations of which will be ... not fear, but good will; not war between the sexes, but loyal brotherhood and sisterly love." Whether or not Harvard's graduating males got the message, they gave Classicist Mishkin an enthusiastic...
...first time in history, a woman undergraduate, Kirsten E. Mishkin '70, gave the Latin Oration. Her subject was Woman's Liberation. She was the only woman speaker...