Word: zionist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Ben Hecht, 70, playwright and screenwriter, a onetime Chicago newsman who, with the late Charles MacArthur, immortalized the seedy Galahads of Cook County pressrooms with his rowdy 1928 valentine, The Front Page, thereafter indulged his bent for vinegarish sentiment in maudlin novels and Zionist pamphleteering, but plied a true trade as one of Hollywood's most highly paid ($5,000 a week, even in the 1930s) and accomplished script doctors, turning out dozens of literate originals, such as The Scoundrel (also with MacArthur) and Crime Without Passion, adaptations ranging from Wuthering Heights to A Farewell to Arms...
...prove that pious Soviet denials of anti-Jewish activity are hollow. The most topical was a book called Judaism Without Embellishment, published last year by the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. One cartoon from this "history" of Judaism showed a man with an exaggeratedly hooked nose described as a Zionist leader serving the "Hitlerite" invaders of the Ukraine...
Preceding the discussion, Alan H. Silver '64, regional president of the Student Zionist Organization, presented the findings of the questionnaire about Harvard students' attitudes toward their Judaism...
...questionnaire was compiled by several members of the student Zionist Organization and a Harvard sociologist. It is concerned with Jewish background (were you bar mitzvahed?) and social associations (Were your high school friends 'Jews, Non-Jews, or At Random...
...survey, entitled the "Harvard Student Attitude Qusetionnaire," was sent to 1000 Harvard-Radcliffe students two weeks ago by the Harvard Student Zionist Organization. Its purpose was to raise questions concerning the Jewish status quo, which is one of the tasks that SZO has set for itself," according to Jonas B. Galper, president of the group...