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...good working definition is taking a trait or action that is widespread and singling out only Jews for criticism for that trait or action. I am reminded of former Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell’s attempt to start a debate at Harvard in the 1920s about whether the number of Jews should be restricted because Jews cheat. When a distinguished alumnus pointed out that non-Jews also cheat, Lowell replied that the alumnus was trying to change the subject, because Lowell wanted to talk about Jews. So too with divestment. When the human rights records of Egypt, Jordan...
...There’s always a way for us to survive, and we’ve always lived under other people,” Wahed said. He noted the important contributions Jews have made to Middle Eastern societies, citing his relatives who helped draft the Egyptian constitution in the 1920s and composed music for several legendary Egyptian singers...
...needs new? Of the 16 musicals now playing in midtown Manhattan theaters, three are set in the 1920s ("Cabaret," "Chicago, "Thoroughly Modern Millie"), three in the 1930s ("42nd Street," "Oklahoma!", "The Boys from Syracuse"), and three, mon Dieu!, in 18th or 19th century France ("Beauty and the Beast," "Les Mis?rables," "The Phantom of the Opera"). Broadway tourists can visit ancient Egypt ("Aida) or Fairy Tale Land ("Into the Woods"). But it's tough to find either a musical that takes place in the here and now - "Urinetown" is a city of the future that looks like Pittsburgh in the Depression...
...Great War running from their trenches amid falling bombs. Beckmann spurned categories, and particularly rejected the Expressionist label. Yet his work after the war in many ways epitomizes that movement, centered in the creative and dissolute chaos of Berlin during the Weimar Republic. Beckmann's drypoint sketches from the 1920s could be every bit as biting and cynical as those of the more overtly political George Grosz. But he had a magisterial distance few others could match. Included among the cabaret artists and chimneysweeps in his 1922 Berlin Voyage series, for instance, are two drawings, each titled The Disenchanted (numbered...
...through all the first-year dorm rooms and upperclass Houses. This is a good point. My god, the University barely springs for sufficient electrical outlets in most rooms on campus, let alone 150 glorious channels of digital cable. So in a world where an $18 billion endowment affords you 1920s-style access to electricity and lamps which are basically designed to break when touched, I guess it might actually seem crazy to wire buildings just for the sake of cable television even if the cable company does not seem to regard this as a charity...