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...young man on the podium was flogging the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic orchestra at a dead run through Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony when a handclap sounded from the raised platform at the rear. "Mr. Goldstein," said Conductor William Steinberg with icy politeness, "why are you in such a hurry? We do admire the playing of the orchestra, and we are surprised they can play all the notes, but we would rather listen to the music of Mendelssohn." The young man on the podium flushed, resumed at a slower tempo. Hour after hour, it went on that way last week while...
...building was an improvement on Russia's usual grim monoliths. Those who think that fairs should be fun preferred the U.S. exhibit. But for all its air of sophistication and relaxation, the candor with which American life is portrayed, the humor displayed in the drawings of Cartoonist Saul Steinberg, some Europeans thought the U.S. exhibit "empty-looking" and something of a hodgepodge. Many criticized the "heavy propaganda" and the ponderous predominance of machinery in the Soviet pavilion, but felt that the Russians provided more to study...
...story of the failure to bury a child at the Jewish cemetery in Israel [Dec. 16] might have created an impression that the rabbis in Israel were heartless. In our religion, burial in a Jewish cemetery is a religious rite reserved to those who profess our faith. Since Aharon Steinberg was born of a non-Jewish mother, he was considered a non-Jewish child. The Catholic priest who refused the burial because the child was not baptized as a Catholic was following the tenets of his religion. Needless to say, it is natural for a religion to abide...
...open letter to Lubar Steinberg, the first serious writing he had ever published, Israel's leading humorist, Ephraim Kishon, said that "this nightmare of yours is shared by many of us." Editorialized the daily Haaretz: "The basic question is whether Israel is a state of free citizens whose rights are equal without discrimination of race, or whether it is the preserve only of those who have entered the covenant of our father Abraham. The answer of the rabbinate and the religious parties is unequivocal. The fence that separated Aharon Steinberg from the other dead of Pardes Hanna symbolizes...
...Dave Steinberg and Ash Hallett are the other two returning veterans of last years' team, although freshmen Roy Jakeman, Warren Young, and converted wing Langi Kavaliku have all played overseas...