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Pinkie:[Jumping up] Johnny, did you ever hear of The Marshall Plan? The Five Year Plan? The Morris Plan? Now listen to the Pincus Plan! Let’s give up the business!
Johnny:[With a quiet intensity, as…
Contributor:
Sylvia Regan
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1953
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Noah:Lonely times again. . . .? [Sighing.] Now I must go out in the world an’ make meself for a big nuisance again. . . ? [Then.] Why should she think I’m crazy? [Abruptly standing.] Now, just a…
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Clifford Odets
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1954
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[ . . . ] Marjorie returned to the bedroom and waited for a moment, watching the doorknob. Then she walked to the full-length mirror on the closet door, and draped the black dress…
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Herman Wouk
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1955
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The Exodus was declared fit and ready for the run to Palestine.
Ari set the sailing time as the morning after the Chanukah party which the management of the Dome Hotel had arranged on…
Contributor:
Leon Uris
Places:
New York City, United States of America
(Israel)
Date:
1958
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There is a certain place where dumb-waiters boom, doors slam, dishes crash; every window is a mother’s mouth bidding the street shut up, go skate somewhere else, come home. My voice is the loudest. […
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Grace Paley
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1959
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Once a week, even now, Mrs Goffman makes that chauffeur drive her slowly down from the mountain, back to St Lawrence Boulevard and Rachel Street [in Montreal]; she doesn’t want any old cronies who…
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Jack Ludwig
Places:
Toronto, Canada
Date:
1973
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The door it opened slowly,
My father he came in,
I was nine years old.
And he stood so tall above me,
His blue eyes they were shining
And his voice was very cold.
He said, “I’ve had a vision
And…
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Leonard Cohen
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1968
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A few days before the surrender of Germany, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, then Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, sent out a call to American newspaper editors which may be…
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David P. Boder
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Chicago, United States of America
Date:
1949
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For the past few years, both in France and Germany, I was awed by the valiant struggle of people who, though only recently liberated from indescribable cruelty, exhibited extraordinary powers of…
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Leo W. Schwarz
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1949
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The author is not among those who adhere to the doctrine that “money talks.” Knowledge talks, conscience talks, but money is merely counted—more by some, less by others. If the author…
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Isaac Rivkind
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1959