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...must instead renew the hope of progress promised to a nation and repair the divisions that threaten its realization. This is our Civil War to fight and America’s two-party system, our “peculiar institution” to overcome...
Attempting to flesh out the life of this peculiar prophet in a work of imaginative historical fiction is Milton Steinberg, formerly the rabbi of the Park Avenue Synagogue in New York City and a prolific author on Jewish thought. Much like its subject matter, the book is unusual. Though it was released to much fanfare this March, Steinberg died in 1950. “The Prophet’s Wife” is an unfinished manuscript, long preserved in boxes of papers and correspondence, and only now edited and presented to the public. The book has no ending, though...
...were friends for more than 25 years) because he was as stunning and funny in speech as he was in print. He gave you the sense that you were clever and engaging, so when you were around him the conversation moved freely. His talk would take on a peculiar phrasing that was unpredictably antiquated--he said he owed it to the King James Bible and Shakespeare--and sharply hip at the same time. Where that came from was a genius that resided someplace in his finely tuned ear and wildly inventive mind...
After all, while last year’s economic downturn may have palpably affected the Harvard undergraduate experience in the more noticeable currency of decreased funding for student initiatives, grants, and, of course, hot breakfast, it seems to have also amplified a peculiar, age-old tendency among the more well-moneyed of our peers. You can probably guess which one it is that I’m referring to—the apparent obligation to demonstrate a visible lack of immunity from economic hardship, when such is clearly not the case...
...Yellow Handkerchief is one of those small movies that seems to have a great deal going against it - implausibility of action, a contrived caginess and a dangerous need to be regionally evocative - but somehow manages to win you over, sucking you into its peculiar mood...