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Lest anyone miss the point, Alternate Delegate Richard Schifter, a Washington attorney, delivered a broadside against the Soviets. Invoking "the lessons of the Hitler era," he charged the Soviets with "thinly veiled antiSemitism" with its attacks on Zionism, and characterized the Soviet Union as a state whose "atheistic doctrine seeks to stamp out all creeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Human Rights: A Chilly Debut | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

Peter Mark Schifter has directed with the breathless tenderness of a Herschel Weinberger, though with considerably more precision. He keeps the trolley cars on their respective tracks, accelerating entrances and exits so that a group of seven is, suddenly, two, and the sanctity of an emotional confrontation is inevitably, often repeatedly, violated by a hovering group of invaders. Schifter's meticulously timed staging allows us few moments to catch our breath, and leaves us dizzy and dazzled by the evening...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Smashing the Sidewalk | 3/6/1980 | See Source »

Director Peter Mark Schifter maintains a fast pace. He wisely realizes that if he relaxes even momentarily, this spirited farce will fall down, like a top that has lost its spin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Reel Truth, As Time Goes By | 5/23/1977 | See Source »

...Sergeant Melvin Schifter takes time out to give the American Legion a kick in the pants we don't appreciate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 17, 1944 | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

...TIME'S Man of the Year-by all odds Marshal Timoshenko. STAFF SERGEANT MELVIN SCHIFTER New Orleans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 7, 1942 | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

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