Word: ramapo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Braque. glues a bird-shaped piece of pelt on a solid background. Signature looks to be a single building, but at the proper distance its doors and windows spell the artist's name and its eaves the date. Jokes all, they are. and technically indebted to other painters. Ramapo Hills owes flagrant credit to Franz Marc, Le Pont Neuf to Giorgio de Chirico, Kiki to Modigliani, others to Braque. Léger, Picasso and Magritte. Yet they have much beyond mockery that is their own: enough original sensitivity and so abundant a measure of spontaneity that it almost begins...
DAVID H. MOSES Town Attorney Town of Ramapo Suffern, N.Y. ¶ TIME is sorry that it misquoted Attorney Moses...
Along Route 45 near rural Ramapo, N.Y., bounces a big green soda truck with a driver to make heads turn-big, bespectacled and full-bearded, beneath a round, wide-brimmed black hat. When he turns off the highway into a community of modern Cape Cod cottages, the friend who greets him on the roadside or waves from a window might be his double-big beard, black hat, black coat and all. This is how men look in New Square...
...Delay. For their part, the officials of Ramapo township feel that their patience has been severely tried by a wily band which, if it has its way, will import droves of bearded and babushkaed fanatics from Brooklyn and crowd them into jerry-built cottages. The current standoff: New Square has applied for incorporation as a village, which would give it control over its own zoning and building, but the township refuses to process the application and is suing the Hasidim for the deed to their streets and sewage system, which they are required by law to surrender (New Square refuses...
...observance of Jewish law. In the warm kitchens -each with two sinks and two stoves to keep dairy and meat foods strictly separate-the women work and wonder when the community will be free of its mundane bedevilments. It is not likely to be soon. Says Ramapo's town attorney, David Moses, himself a Jew: "We have done more for them than for others under similar circumstances. But frankly, I wish they'd go back to Brooklyn...