Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...battered slums of the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn are full of transplanted memories. Ever since the end of World War II, refugees from European concentration camps have been filtering in, bringing the dress, customs and fears of the Old World's Orthodox Jews. Synagogues stand on almost every corner; the streets are full of men with long beards and skullcaps; store signs are written in Hebrew, and their clerks speak Yiddish. Wig salons thrive-many women shave their heads, according to Orthodox custom...
...drawbacks, but both come off pleasantly enough. Performed on an arena-like stage with the audience at its elbow and on all four sides, Broadway's theater-in-the-round at times resembles theater-in-the-rough. But the illusion of life is quite as strong as with orthodox staging; what is diminished is the illusion of theater...
Happily, the film is dominated by the bumbling of "Father" Robinson, orthodox resident of an English version Andy Hardy hometown. He writes traveller's postcards, variants on the mundane, before he leaves on vacation; at the last minute he exchanges a Mediterranean cruise for the perennial seaside fortnight, and on his return relates Mediterranean tales from a guidebook. The situational humor--when a dog tramples his pampered begonias and a prospective son-in-law breaks his clock--is unfortunately more exercise and less amusing than Robinson's commentaries on his vacation, his newspaper, and his wife...
...Samuel Dacke Harkness, 66, grew up in a background where theology was orthodox and strict. The son of a Scottish Presbyterian minister, young Sam earned a doctor's degree from Missouri Valley College and was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1908. But his experiences in the ministry soon began to jar loose some of the orthodox rivets in his Presbyterianism...
...unbalanced-line, winged-T type of attack that Amherst used, only it will look better because we have some strength up the middle in Johnny West." Jordan said he would not concentrate entirely on the winged-T attack, but expects "to be able to shift into the orthodox single-wing or T, again emphasizing fundamentals...