Monument to a past in World of Our Fathers review
The East European Jewish immigrant experience is explored in Irving Howe and Kenneth Libo’s comprehensive World of Our Fathers a history tracing late 19th century arrivals through modern times with emphasis on culture institutions and notable figures like Feigenbaum and Dubinsky Howe’s monument to a fading past mixes elegy with tempered optimism noting Yiddish culture and immigrant life shaped American Jewish identity.
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Kenneth Libo
Jacob Epstein
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Lenny Bruce
Woody Allen
America
Alexander II
Lower East Side
Yiddish Theater
Yiddish Daily Forward
Benjamin Feigenbaum
David Dubinsky
Midler Wins Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year
Bette Midler wowed Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Club earning its 26th Woman of the Year award and a gold plated pot. She joked about Cambridge pulse and performed a naughty number before leaving in a revealing skirt twirl. The club, dating to 1845, is Harvard’s oldest dramatic group.
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Bette Midler
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Carol Channing
Carol Burnett
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Prague Madrigal Antiqua at Williams College in 197?
The Prague Madrigal Antiqua from the National Museum of Prague will perform at Thompson Memorial Chapel in Williams College Williamstown on Sunday Feb 29 at 8 30 p m under Williams Choral Society and College Chapel Board conducted by Miroslav Venhoda The program features 15th century Czech manuscripts 16th 18th century dance music Gallus Carniolus Eben with a Petr Eben work Pragnesis Admission 2 dollars half price for students free to Williams students with ID
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Prague Madrigal Antiqua
National Museum of Prague
Williams College
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College Chapel Board
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National Museum
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German Federal Republic
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Holland
Spain
France
Czechoslovakia
Jacob Gallus Carniolus
Stabat Mater
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Williams Brass Quintet Concert at Clark Art Institute
Williams College Brass Quintet will perform Saturday February 21 at 3 30 p m in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute auditorium Williamstown The program emphasizes American composers for the bicentennial year with works by Frachenpohl Schmidt Baron and earlier European masters Bach Pezel Gabrielli with a 45 minute informal length Admission is free
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Sterling and
Francine Clark Art Institute
Williamstown
Arthur Frachenpohl
William Schmidt
Samuel Baron
Johann Pezel
J.S. Bach
TV Highlights Tonight on ABC CBS NBC and PBS
Television listings note 8 p.m. shows on ABC CBS NBC PBS including Welcome Back Kotter The Waltons James Dean Portrait of a Friend and The Way It Was 1954 World Series Giants versus Indians. Highlights include Barney Miller Lowell Thomas Remembers Winesburg Ohio and The People’s Choice Awards with Muhammad Ali aboard the Dean Martin Celebrity Roast at 10 p.m. on NBC.
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Janice Wentworth
Lowell Thomas
Dean Martin
Muhammad Ali
Nielsen Ratings Signal TV Audiences Dare To Choose
The February Nielsen rankings show ABC top with Laverne and Shirley and Happy Days, followed by All In The Family and Rich Man Poor Man. Winter Olympics specials and Be My Valentine Charlie Brown boost the top 20, while Bottom entries include Pops and The Cop and the Kid.
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A.C. Nielsen Co
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the Waltons
Wonderful World of Disney
Rhoda
Book reviews The Fall of The Roman Empire and A Waiting Game
Michael Grant analyzes Rome s demise due to internal flaws while vividly recounting a theologians fear at Rome s sack. Michael Powell’s A Waiting Game probes Irish violence through an Irish Canadian detective unraveling a triple murder set against Ireland s post civil war tensions.
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Annenberg
Grant
Rome
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St. Martin’s
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