Word: sola
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FERTILE PLAIN, by Esfher Sola-man (344 pp.; Abelard-Schuman; $3.50), deals with Russian Jews, more urbane, polished and aware than Singer's woebegone Galizianer. Little Rissia grows up in Vladimirsk, a fictional town near Kiev, in the early years of the 20th century. All Russia seems wrapped in a dream, like a mountain village in the instant before the avalanche. While, outside, the wind is rising, at home Rissia is borne along on the immemorial patterns of Jewish tradition in which there is a complex law for every occasion and a cryptic Talmudic proverb for every problem...
...greater than the more publicized disagreements. By the time they headed back across the world, they had generated new enthusiasm for the task of raising living standards everywhere, a task that often has seemed to defy the free world's resources. As El Salvador's Francisco de Sola told fellow conferees: "This is no time for people with weak hearts...
Last week two new Answer Men began broadcasting, one in Greece (Aftos Pou Sola Apanda) and one in Turkey (Hazircevap Adam). As in every other foreign country, Chapman was warned not to expect the same lively and miscellaneous curiosity he is used to in the U.S. "Europeans are different," he is repeatedly told. Says Chapman: "They don't seem very different to me. One of the questions Europeans ask most frequently is 'Do Indians have beards...
...accuser, one Benjamin Freedman, was a peculiar and disgruntled zealot-a self-styled "excommunicated Jew" who had given financial backing to a wild-eyed, anti-Semitic hate sheet. At his instigation the Senate Armed Services Committee solemnly called a hearing, put an ex-Communist named Ralph De Sola on the witness stand and listened to four hours of hair-raising testimony...
...Sola's testimony began collapsing immediately. Instead of backing him to the hilt, as he had promised, his divorced wife contradicted him completely and added that he was a man of violently unstable emotions. Two New Yorkers, described by De Sola as ex-Communists who could verify his charges, also contradicted him. Fifteen ex-members of the John Reed Club denied ever knowing an Anna Rosenberg. An imposing set of endorsements of Mrs. Rosenberg poured in from George Marshall, Dwight Eisenhower, Bernard Baruch and many others...