Word: tailoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plans to arrange his daughters' marriages in the time-honored way. They plead love. "Tradition," thunders Tevye, stabbing the air with an irate prophet's forefinger and then lowering his hand like a falling leaf, in wry self-mockery. The eldest daughter marries a tailor without a sewing machine. The second follows her student-revolutionary fiance to Siberia. The third elopes with a Gentile. Tevye's buffetings are preludes to a communal sorrow, an edict ordering the Jews to sell their property and leave the land...
...consider a case until one-third of a convict's term had elapsed. Bennett inspired the 1958 Omnibus Sentencing Act, which allows far greater parole flexibility and permits a judge to jail a man for three to six months of observation before final sentencing, thus encouraging courts to tailor the rap to the man. As a result of Bennett's pioneering, only 10% of federal prisoners serve more than five years. And the prison population is declining: there are 1,359 fewer cons this year than...
Polly (played by Shelley Winters) was born in 1900 in a White Russian ghetto. Her father, a tailor, decided to send his children one by one to "the golden land," and when Polly was twelve she arrived in America with everything she had in the world slung over her shoulder in a potato sack. At 16 she was working in a Brooklyn sweatshop. At 18 she was raped, or so she claimed. At 21 she became a madam by mistake...
People have been saying things like that about Pastore for a long time. His father, an immigrant Italian tailor, died when his son was barely eight. Not long after that, young John went to work earning his own keep, first as an errand boy in Providence, later in college as a part-time bookkeeper. With a law degree earned in nighttime university courses at the Providence Y.M.C.A., he climbed steadily through a clutch of state-government jobs, from assembly member to Governor in 1945. In 1950 he was elected the first U.S. Senator of Italian parentage. In the Senate...
Trimming the Bureaucracy. Post-Stalin liberalism in the bloc is bringing self-criticism and some slow improvement. The Czech government is turning back to private ownership in such small enterprises as tailor shops, laundries and hat-check concessions. To provide more laborers, it is also trimming a bureaucracy swollen to 750,000 unproductive clerks and minor officials. To get hard currency for grain and machinery imports, it is wooing Western tourists with film and jazz festivals and easy visas. Last week, in one of the biggest policy decisions so far, State Planning Commission Chairman Oldrich Cernik announced that factories that...