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After their honeymoon-probably in the sun and possibly in Florida or Nassau -the newlyweds will settle into a two-bedroom apartment in Northampton in a building owned by Smith College. Furniture is no problem: since her parents' new residence in Washington comes furnished, Julie has scavenged their Manhattan...
ISRAEL also has problems within its Jewish population. Originally the country was settled primarily by Jewish immigrants from Europe, but recent immigration has come increasingly from Morocco and Oriental countries with social, cultural, economic, and educational backgrounds substantially different from the highly-developed and professionalized Jewish communities of Europe. According...
The hope for complete integration lies with the descendants of the immigrants. "The second generation is less segregated, and hopefully the third will be even less," Eisenstadt said, and there has been a slow but continuous increase in the rate of intermarriage between the two groups. Higher education is also...
Head Start on Heaven. By the end of the 14th century, miniaturists had become highly sophisticated and confidently eclectic, adopting whatever suited them out of Hellenic, Byzantine or Oriental styles. The Gaston miniaturist was keenly observant of nature, as his grazing mountain goats testify. When it came to portraying the...
CHINA-WATCHING has always been as much art as science. In the early 20th century, China's splendid culture and baffling style convinced observers that understanding the Chinese meant first penetrating an "inscrutable" facade--empathizing with some elusive oriental essence. After 1949, the inscrutability became artificial. The communist revolution seemed...