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...Harold Baratz, like many offspring of immigrants from Eastern or Southern Europe, wanted desperately to be seen as American. For years he complained that his name was a handicap, often misspelled or mispronounced, a dead giveaway. His brother Samuel had rechristened himself Bill Barzell. That was too exotic for Dad, who did little but grumble about our foreign-sounding name until I started to get bylines on my high school paper. That did it. Not long after my bar mitzvah, he went to court and got a writ requiring the world to call us Barrett. In journalism, he assured...
...reasons, the authorities in a few countries around 1810 ordered Jews to give up generic Hebrew titles. Like all Diaspora Jews over the centuries, the first Baratz did what seemed necessary to adapt, adding vowels to the B, R and Tz of Ben Reb Tzadik to produce Baratz. So Harold Baratz, in his own way, adapted. But he lived long enough to understand that his was the last generation in America to perceive a need for camouflage...
...will be leaving the Administration within weeks for a job in the private sector, opening the No. 2 management spot. Neel's departure will bolster those in the Administration who wonder what, if anything, can be done to bring more orderly attention to problems. Some hope New York attorney Harold Ickes, who was passed over for the deputy's job in January, will be pressed to fill Neel's shoes. A court-appointed investigator cleared Ickes last week of allegations that he had acted improperly while representing a labor union with ties to organized crime...
...only remember the fantastic cheering andthe riotous emotion of the crowd," says TheReverend Canon Harold Bane Sedgewick `30, a loyalCrimson fan who will attend his 57th Game thisweekend in New Haven. "It was just extraordinary.I have a tape and when I get lonely I play it.There will never be another game like...
Just having tickets has not been enough to get audiences into Harold Prince's spectacular, 71-actor, $6.5 million staging of Show Boat at the opulent new North York Performing Arts Centre in suburban Toronto. It has also been necessary to pass in front of black hecklers shouting insults and waving placards reading SHOW BOAT SPREADS LIES AND HATE and SHOW BOAT = CULTURAL GENOCIDE. The protest, under police guard, has not deterred many ticket holders but may have had a striking impact on potential sales: inside the theater, the only black faces readily apparent belong to ushers. As often happens...