Word: rabbi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...George Washington Carver Brown studies a Negro soldier going through basic training and treats him as a sort of super-minority-the classic fall guy, mocked and persecuted even by his fellow Negroes. Taub East takes up the theme of alienation and minorities in terms of an amateur rabbi-an enlisted man in occupied Japan-brooding about his kinship with the eta, the "unmentionable outcast class, persecuted in accord with antique, hallowed laws...
...Governor of Michigan, George Romney. Beauty is her business, and every woman here and every man knows it: Elizabeth Arden. In painting, I know what I like. I enormously like Edward Hopper. A novelist, wonderful, obsessed with America, John Dos Passos. His faith and wisdom sustained the public philosophy: Rabbi Louis Finkelstein. True journalist daughter of a great journalist whose husband, Harry Guggenheim, also made the cover on his own, Alicia Patterson. A man who knows what he believes and does well
Religion: Bishop Dibelius. Francis Cardinal Spellman, Paul Tillich, Eugene Carson Blake, Rabbi Louis Finkelstein, John Courtney Murray...
...between Flemish and French-speaking citizens are a constant threat to stability. The Luxembourgeois, who speak French, German and a gobbledydeutsch called Mosel-fränkisch, do not even have an official language. They are 96.9% Catholic, but the government pays the salaries of the country's sole rabbi and its only Protestant minister. Even the country's few Communists profess loyalty to the royal family. Titular head of state since 1919 has been the handsome, highly esteemed Grand Duchess Charlotte, 67, who later this month will pay her first official visit to the U.S. since she escaped...
Pariah & Servant. The richest of York's moneylenders was Baruch of Northstreet. He flaunted his wealth on his bejeweled fingers, had no qualms about cheating the Christians who kept him a social pariah. But Baruch's son Abram was his father's despair. A failed rabbi, Abram despised Baruch's vanity and usury, refused to learn the lending trade, struck up a friendship and a religious dialogue with a simple Catholic monk. To the consternation of his parents. Abram also gradually fell in love with Bett, their poor Christian servant girl...