Word: essex
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...emigrate to Israel. The very fact that the Moscow rabbi was in the U.S. trying to "establish contact" with U.S. Jewry suggests that some of the charges of anti-Semitism were beginning to bother the Russians. As he held court in his suite in Manhattan's medium-posh Essex House, the rabbi reiterated two basic arguments, both undeniable-as far as they went. Anti-Semitism exists outside Russia, too, he said, and Russian Jews today are better off than in czarist times...
...lingering pretensions of Victorian moral eminence. "The his torian of Literature," Strachey had once written, "is the historian of exploded reputations"; by diligently dynamiting the reputations of others, he built his own. In his last 14 years, he wrote two exceedingly successful biographies, Queen Victoria and Elizabeth and Essex. But it was Eminent Victorians that opened the way to the wholesale and often unfair assault on Victorianism that has preoccupied England and America for the past 50 years...
...adaptation of Maxwell Anderson's Elizabeth the Queen. Though it is essentially a two-character play, Dame Judith as the queen hissing "Go to Ireland-go to hell" made it a one-woman show. Torn between pride for country and passion for the Earl of Essex (Heston), she played the tug of war with exquisite skill, slowly losing grip and, in the end, turning into a living mummy. Heston, unfortunately, seemed slightly embalmed to begin with...
HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.).* Elizabeth the Queen, Maxwell Anderson's 1930 tragedy with Dame Judith Anderson as Elizabeth I and Charlton Heston as Lord Essex, her lover...
Last week, with a New Jersey courtroom for a stage, Jones demonstrated that he had lost none of his talent for theatrical invective. "You are not a righteous judge!" the defendant bellowed at Essex County Judge Leon Kapp, who sentenced him to a near maximum 2½-to-3-year prison term and a fine of $1,000 for illegally possessing the guns. "You represent a crumbling structure of society!" yelled Jones, who had earlier earned a 30-day contempt sentence for his outbursts in court...