Word: shalach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appear and the tale unfolds, we find ourselves in the midst of a mass of unpleasant people. Shylock is not the only person interested in ducats; it seems that just about everybody in Venice and Belmont is a materialistic money-grubber. The very name Shylock is a transliteration of shalach, a Hebrew word for bird-of-prey; but here, almost all the characters are, in their diverse ways, birds-of-prey. These are unsavory people, notably lacking in spiritual values. (Is director Kahn trying to show us an image of mid-20th-century society...
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