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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there are now hundreds all over the U.S.-is a close-knit community that meets for prayer sessions, meals, classes and discussions on Judaism. While havurah members do not necessarily live together or pool their finances, they share an intense commitment to making religion part of everyday living. Ex-Teacher Strassfeld and his wife and co-author Sharon were members of the first havurah, in Somerville, Mass., where with a fellow member, Richard Siegel, they began compiling the first Catalog. "Jews have always borrowed from the culture of any land they happened to be in, and Judaized what they took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Kosher Earth Catalog | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

...them. But for the most part, they are wonderfully human, and their idiosyncrasies become strangely endearing. Perhaps the nicest character is that of Marie, a tousled blonde supermarket checker who blithely undercharges anyone she feels has been cheated by the system but there is also Marco, a pudgy history teacher philosopher with bizarre theories of time and history; or Mathieu, a devout Marxist, who identified himself only as "Labour", trapped in the machinations of capital, a former union organizer who goes out to work on the farm having despaired of revolution...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Out on the Fringe | 1/5/1977 | See Source »

...Norman Siegel, a stocky, 40-year-old English teacher from Bridgeport, Conn., drowsiness had been a curse since high school days. He could fall asleep and indeed often did, at almost any time−in front of his class, at the wheel of his car and even while giving driver-training instruction. For years, despite spending thousands of dollars looking for a cure and being twitted by his friends about his intermittent stupors, he was unable to do anything about his affliction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Snoring Sickness | 12/27/1976 | See Source »

...teacher is an old pro, Eddie Waters (Milo O'Shea), whose last laugh seems to have sunk long ago in the still pond of his face. As his students sprint through their routines - ethnic, absurdist one-liners, god-awful - Eddie offers his philosophy of comedy: "A true joke has to do more than release tension, it has to liberate the will and the desire, it has to change the situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMEDIANS: Howls | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

...against those who like her just the way she is ("She really is an angel," says Sebastian Engleberg, her voice teacher for ten years), there are others who feel that Flicka's full potential has yet to be tapped. One of those is veteran Stage Director Frank Corsaro, who worked with her at the Houston première of The Seagull. Corsaro senses a certain turbulence, even aggressiveness inside Flicka. "I would love to see her play a real bitch," he says. The most immediate possibility is the neurotic, highly sexed Fennimore in Delius' Fennimore and Gerda, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Von Stade: Forget the Magic | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

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