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...them to children of families only one or two generations in the U.S. Quietly, pridefully, parents and relatives took their places on folding chairs on the broad lawn, while a Berlioz march thundered from loudspeakers. Some women wore mink stoles; others were in frantically color-splashed pants suits. Folded Yiddish newspapers protruded from the pockets of some of the men. While President Leonard Lief conferred the degrees, jet planes from Kennedy Airport soared overhead; the roar of traffic and elevated trains, punctuated occasionally by the shriek of sirens, filtered through the spring-fresh foliage of trees surrounding the campus. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Commencement, 1969: Pomp and Protest | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

Some of the other stories are better than Asimov's pitiful offering; some are worse. In "Budget Planet," Robert Sheckley has god speaking with a Yiddish accent. I'm not an especially reverent man, but I was grossed out, K. M. O'Donnell wrote a tedious novella called "Final War" which, he ways, is about "neither war nor death." He goes on to say that it is, in fact, about "the polarization of existences re-enacted on several levels over and again and if that makes no sense, I suppose human life makes no sense either." O'Donnell is, unfortunately...

Author: By Jerald R. Gerst, | Title: The Best of Sci Fi | 6/10/1969 | See Source »

Arthur Fidelman-half tragic hero, half Yiddish joke-has ranked among Malamud's finest double characters since he began to appear over a decade ago in assorted short stories. Now Malamud presents him in a brilliant full-length exercise in slapstick Angst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Goodbye, Old Paint | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

...Joys of Yiddish, Rosten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Cinema, Books: Apr. 18, 1969 | 4/18/1969 | See Source »

...Joys of Yiddish, Rosten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Apr. 11, 1969 | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

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