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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best characteristics of written Patchen is his vitality, one of the worst features of spoken Patchen is his boredom. It's surprising because before hearing him read you'd think he was jumping all over the place while writing his stuff. The choice of poems on the record is a good one, largely because he leans on the chuckle-chuckle side and forgets this country's inevitable American woe. All of the "Limericks" are included, and they sound just as good, and maybe better, than they read...
Wang admits he has never read the Talmud, but goes on to criticize it for obscenity and immorality. One of his other charges against American Jews is that their support of Israel weakens our national economy. He has no answer to the statement that Israel is the one nation most nearly embodying his concept of "awareness of one's own racial and cultural heritage...
ANNE FRANK was a little girl who lived in Nazi-occupied Netherlands and wore a yellow six-pointed star prominently displayed upon her dress. The star was to warn all passersby that she was a Jew. Thousands of Americans who have read Anne's diary and seen the Broadway play, The Diary of Anne Frank, have wondered what happened between the time the Nazis crashed through the thin partition that concealed her attic hiding place and her death at Belsen. For the answer, see FOREIGN NEWS...
...case was shunted to a remote, dark room in Pretoria magistrate's court; the hearings were held in the late afternoon behind closed doors. But the record of the proceedings reached opposition newspapers, and they splashed the story for South Africans (white) and South Africans (nonwhite) to read...
...child cannot read, write...