Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reckoned from the Creation, which is calculated by Jewish scholars to have taken place in the fall...
...longer has time for exhaustive research into the folkways of urban Jewish life ("Fortunately, Molly never has to be too accurate"). Over the years, the Goldbergs' fan letters (several thousand a month) have maintained a steady 50-50 average between Jews and non-Jews. Mrs. Berg likes to recall the time the Mother Superior of a Philadelphia convent wrote to ask for a synopsis of six weeks' programs. "She said the nuns were regular listeners but they'd given up the Goldbergs for Lent and now they were wondering what had happened...
Owlish, Hungarian-born Dr. Somogyi is a biochemist in the Jewish Hospital of St. Louis. But he is not an M.D., and so is not allowed to treat patients or see them professionally unless a cooperative doctor leads them into Somogyi's office for consultation. But, "looking over the shoulders of physicians," as he puts it, Somogyi has had a hand in treating 4,000 new cases of diabetes in the last 14 years. He has also been consulted in 300 to 400 other cases which had been previously "mismanaged" (by his standards) by other doctors...
...British, may be the heroes of a new rash of fictional melodramas. In this slow stalking of the Palestine situation, the British are pictured as fatuous sports, the Arabs as a colorfully comic tribe of three-occasionally seen in the background taking a hefty spit at a Jewish armored truck-and the Jews as total heroes. The worldwide political snafu that preceded Israel's rebirth is boiled down to the smuggling of Jewish D.P.s through British patrols, a one-sided desert scramble that resembles a gang of dead-end kids working against one slow-thinking cop. The same Englishmen...
...behave in harrowing situations like mechanical toys that need winding. A new actor, Jeff Chandler, registers a slow magnetic power similar to Gregory Peck's, and is apt to become at least half as popular. Stephen McNally, oddly the only one in the movie who tries for a Jewish accent, misses it spectacularly...