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...than in any other country in history, with government, the professions and all walks of life open to them, the concern was that Jews would forget their traditions and simply merge with the population. Where the ghetto served to preserve Judaism, it was feared the American suburb might subtly undermine it. Since World War II, the spectacle of Israel?brave, threatened, struggling for survival against heavy odds?did much to avert this danger
...course, it will implicitly choose a certain kind of environment--one, perhaps, in which all Cambridge slowly becomes like Harvard and MIT until we find that we are no longer an urban university but one which has allowed there to grow up around itself a kind of inner-city suburb with a single life style...
...Kenmore Moviehouse early next week. Mean Streets was a critical smash in New York, but it never made much money, so maybe that's why this new Susskind-Warner production is a little too easy sometimes: when Ellen Burstyn takes off west from the nightmare of a suburb in New Mexico, we see the station wagon eat the highway with high-energy music playing behind, as though you're supposed to groove to the film instead of watching it. But the rest of Alice's journey from domination and fear to non-sexist union is much better. Scorsese...
Vinnell Corp., though not exactly a household brand name, is scarcely a do-nothing James Bond Universal Export with a plaque on a door and all mystery within. The privately owned company, headquartered in a Los Angeles suburb, was incorporated in 1945, and has specialized in large-scale building and engineering projects in the U.S. and in more than 40 countries abroad. Vinnell served as the contractor for Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, paved highways in several Western states, and for a time was a large steel fabricator in Southern California. The company has also enjoyed a lucrative and thriving...
...state sent condolences, airlines laid on extra flights and railroads added trains to accommodate mourners. A frenzied crowd of a million people followed her funeral procession through Cairo streets, weeping and chanting "Goodbye to the lady." After rites at Sharkass Mosque, the crowd carried the coffin to the suburb of Basatin, where she was buried...