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...Waiting for Lefty," the play that made him famous, is a perfect example of the class-oriented drama fashionable at the time. Like Lillian Hellman's Watch on the Rhine or Arthur Miller's All My Sons, Lefty was everywhere acknowledged to be as much a political statement as an artistic one. It was quickly hailed in the left-wing press; the drama critic of the Daily Worker called it "frankly revolutionary propaganda...the most exciting theater this reporter has seen in many months...
Polymath with a preoccupation, debunked the E.S.P. experiments of J.B. Rhine, who ingenuously wondered why his subjects did better when he paid them...
Ashkenazi Jews, the Europeans who dominated the Zionist movement in the 20th century, originally were a tiny community on the Rhine. The Ashkenazim founded modern political Zionism and brought to Israel Western values, education, technology and tastes. The problem lies in the fact that often they look down on Sephardim, and the Sephardim on them, a phenomenon fed by ethnic differences. Sephardim tend to live in small towns, raise large families, and to eat foods that even now reflect their Spanish heritage. Rice, for example, is permitted during Passover. Ashkenazim tend to make their homes in the city...
...World War II-the final defeat of the Germans' Afrika Korps, the invasion of Sicily, and, as commander of the U.S. First Army, the historic Normandy invasion. In 1945, after the Allies' near defeat at the Battle of the Bulge, Bradley led the sweep across the Rhine and the meeting of U.S. and Soviet troops at the Elbe. He was by then commander of the Twelfth Army Group, a mass of 1.3 million troops that formed the largest American force ever united under one man's command...
With only one suitcase, filled with clothing and favorite photographs, she set sail from Bremen on the steamship Munchen. "I had seen the Rhine, but this was the biggest puddle of water." The ship reached New York on Dec. 11, 1923. The spectacle of the Statue of Liberty and the New York skyline lavishly lit up at night seemed to be a sign of America's astounding wealth. "At home, lights were out after 9," says Sophie. Her overwhelming sensation was fear: "If you didn't pass the tests, they would send you back...