Word: brenda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BRENDA R. TANGER Newton Centre, Mass...
...that has concerned Jews throughout history: Should they or should they not let themselves be assimilated? Most of the Jewish characters in this book have succumbed to the alien and often tempting culture in which they live. Instead of being called Moses or Miriam, children are named Sheila, Kevin, Brenda, Neil. Scythelike noses have been bobbed into gentile unobtrusiveness, Talmudic scholars replaced by star athletes and Socialist singers...
...ascent from grubby Newark to the green pastures of suburban Short Hills, NJ. Mr. Patimkin is a rich manufacturer of kitchen sinks, "tall, strong, ungrammatical, and a ferocious eater." Son Ronald was an all-state basketball player in high school and a Big Ten star at Ohio State. Daughter Brenda is beautiful, plays crack tennis and goes to Radcliffe. Her suitor, Neil Klugman, tells of his summer affair with Brenda-a daytime round of basketball, pingpong, mile runs, swimming races, and a nighttime series of assignations with Brenda. The affair ends badly for everyone, with Brenda ravished, her mother prostrated...
Divorced. By Brenda Lewis (real name: Birdie Solomon), 38, handsome soprano of the Metropolitan Opera: Simon Asen, 48, conductor; after 15 years of marriage, two children; in Sunbury...
...fourth quarter, the 5 ft. 11 in. Miss Fogarty fouled out for overguarding. Lacking height and experience without the captain, guards Brenda Baird, Nancy Jacobson, and substitute Judy Friend failed to halt the high-pressure B.C. forwards, who went on to score nine points...