Taking sides / Bernard Levin

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London, United Kingdom : Jonathan Cape Ltd, c1979Description: xxi, 290 pages ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 224017306
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • FIC .L48 1979
Contents:
London pride doesn't mean a thing to us -- A just price for a teacher's passion -- How an old geyser fell on hard times -- Two fingers and the long arm of the law -- The mercy of the cruel sea -- Who was that lady? -- Baby into guerilla -- A mug at ascot -- There was an old bishop of birmingham -- The falling mountain -- Vintage montgomery -- The blood trial revived -- The bloody trial concluded -- From my hammock -- The joy that passeth all understanding -- Truth or consequences -- The people will listen -- Ah, so -- The bomb and the rope -- With apologies to Edgar Allan Poe -- The practiced and the imperfect -- All those in favour -- Cats out of the bag -- Pray you undo this button -- Testimony to the lies of tyranny -- My secret dread -- An ideal way to clear the mind -- Return from a long journey -- From prophet of violence to apostle of brotherhood -- Fleet street-walkers -- Keeping them in their place -- Six feet under -- We are the old masters now -- Yours faithfully, disgusted, Q.C. -- The letter of the law -- Broken on the wheel -- Growing up with dada -- It takes two to tango -- Goodbye, Mr. Clips -- Sense takes a holiday and envy stays at home -- The death march -- And the end of the road -- Damn braces -- The victory of us over them -- At the cup final -- J is for jew -- Unholy passions ay oberammergau -- The house of wagner -- The other side of the wagner record -- Sandcastles on the road from morocco -- The politics of iniquity -- Carry up the flagpole -- The blood on the flag -- Marriage a la mode -- Valour knows no barriers -- Benign intentions -- The questions machines cannot answer -- Free speech has to be paid for -- Farewell to a friend Pied Piper -- Victims of the intellectual consumer society.
Summary: A collection of short articles by Levin published between 1966-79 in various British newspapers. Two of them (p. 48-56) deal with the trial against Dr. Mikhail Stern held in Vinnitsa in 1974. The trial had anti-Semitic overtones. The article "J Is for Jew" (p. 210-213) reflects on the struggle by Marcus Shloimovitz to exclude negative connotations of the word "Jew" from English dictionaries. "Unholy Passions at Oberammergau" (p. 214-217) reflects on the anti-Semitic deicide charge in the Oberammergau passion play.
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Includes index.

London pride doesn't mean a thing to us -- A just price for a teacher's passion -- How an old geyser fell on hard times -- Two fingers and the long arm of the law -- The mercy of the cruel sea -- Who was that lady? -- Baby into guerilla -- A mug at ascot -- There was an old bishop of birmingham -- The falling mountain -- Vintage montgomery -- The blood trial revived -- The bloody trial concluded -- From my hammock -- The joy that passeth all understanding -- Truth or consequences -- The people will listen -- Ah, so -- The bomb and the rope -- With apologies to Edgar Allan Poe -- The practiced and the imperfect -- All those in favour -- Cats out of the bag -- Pray you undo this button -- Testimony to the lies of tyranny -- My secret dread -- An ideal way to clear the mind -- Return from a long journey -- From prophet of violence to apostle of brotherhood -- Fleet street-walkers -- Keeping them in their place -- Six feet under -- We are the old masters now -- Yours faithfully, disgusted, Q.C. -- The letter of the law -- Broken on the wheel -- Growing up with dada -- It takes two to tango -- Goodbye, Mr. Clips -- Sense takes a holiday and envy stays at home -- The death march -- And the end of the road -- Damn braces -- The victory of us over them -- At the cup final -- J is for jew -- Unholy passions ay oberammergau -- The house of wagner -- The other side of the wagner record -- Sandcastles on the road from morocco -- The politics of iniquity -- Carry up the flagpole -- The blood on the flag -- Marriage a la mode -- Valour knows no barriers -- Benign intentions -- The questions machines cannot answer -- Free speech has to be paid for -- Farewell to a friend Pied Piper -- Victims of the intellectual consumer society.

A collection of short articles by Levin published between 1966-79 in various British newspapers. Two of them (p. 48-56) deal with the trial against Dr. Mikhail Stern held in Vinnitsa in 1974. The trial had anti-Semitic overtones. The article "J Is for Jew" (p. 210-213) reflects on the struggle by Marcus Shloimovitz to exclude negative connotations of the word "Jew" from English dictionaries. "Unholy Passions at Oberammergau" (p. 214-217) reflects on the anti-Semitic deicide charge in the Oberammergau passion play.

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