Word: schiff
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...cast, too, was spirited. Jon Spayde was particularly good; Debby Freedman and Ken Schiff only slightly less capable and energetic. They did their best, and The Laughingstock is certainly a well-meaning, ingratiating show. It's just that it has no cutting edge, no point of view to make it satire instead of a collection of better-and-worse gags. There is nothing in it that could possibly offend the comfortable businessman in from Brookline for a wild evening in the Square. Perhaps the funniest bit is about a youngman who takes his incredibly uncouth date to a fancy French...
...were mixed. Okamoto was visibly disappointed. He wrote a request-later handed to Japanese Ambassador Eiji Tokura-that was scarcely likely to be granted: extradition to Japan, retrial, and the death penalty there. Some editorialists applauded Israeli justice, but Ha'aretz's military commentator, Ze'ev Schiff, pointed out a disturbing argument for executing Okamoto after all: "As long as the Japanese murderer is in Israeli hands, he becomes an operational objective, an invitation for murder and extortion against Israel and its citizens. In order to free Okamoto the Red Army is liable to kidnap Israeli hostages...
Bertrand Fox, Schiff Professor of Investment Banking, a member of the search committee from the Press "Board of Directors, said yesterday that a new director would be responsible for helping to reconcile financial difficulties with the need for scholarly publications...
Three Harvard professors were re-appointed to four-year terms as directors. They are Archibald Cox '34, Williston Professor of Law; Oscar Handlin, Warren Professor of American History; and Bertrand Fox, Schiff Professor of Investment Banking...
...Editor James Wechsler on the retirement of Supreme Court Justice Hugo Lafayette Black seemed innocuous enough. Black's departure, wrote Wechsler, "would enable President Nixon to replace him with a man more congenial to the mood of this Administration." Three days after that, a rebuke from Publisher Dorothy Schiff appeared in the Post's "Letters to the Editor" column. "You insist," said Wechsler's boss, "that Mr. Black's so far unnamed successor must be 'a man' (italics mine) of stature, dignity and learning. What an opportunity you have given Mr. Nixon to appoint...