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There was no shortage of popular culture either. The Yiddish theater, which Howe shrewdly compares to Italian opera (where the emphasis is on virtuoso performance rather than content), was not shy about amending Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet was set in a Polish village, and Friar Laurence was recast as a Reform rabbi. The famous performers originating in the ghetto included Al Jolson, the Marx Brothers, George Jessel, George Burns, Eddie Cantor, Sophie Tucker, Fanny Brice...
Meeker added, "Industry and business are recast in an adversary role with the consumer" because of campaigns by media and consumer groups...
...Treasury auction: the gold will be sold only in the form of 400-oz. bars, worth at current free-market prices about $70,000 each. The big distributors who buy these bars will send many of them to refineries where they will be melted down and recast in smaller sizes for sale to the public...
...Brahms would have dared change the key, Starker points out - an inspired musical per mutation that illuminates the cello's lower register and exploits the instrument's mellow color and timbre. The composer also made some 200 alterations, mostly minor, in the score which he probably recast for his friend, the eminent 19th century cellist Robert Hausmann. At the end of the second movement Brahms added a section for the cello and switched a violin part to the piano. In the final movement he reversed the piano and string parts, al lowing the cello to lead...
...senior Justice made clear that the law school has broad discretion to give any individual applicant preference, so long as it is granted without respect to race. The majority may not go along, but what Douglas seemed to be suggesting was that if the school were to recast its admissions approach-for instance, by adding points to the law-board scores of any applicants who might be considered victims of the test's cultural bias-it could avoid the entire constitutional discrimination problem. The effect would still be to help minority students who might otherwise fail to meet...