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Wieseltier appeared in one episode of the fifth season of The Sopranos, playing " Stuart Silverman ," a character whom Wieseltier described as " a derangingly materialistic co-religionist who dreams frantically of ' Wedding of the Week ' and waits a whole year for some stupid car in which he can idle for endless hours in traffic east of Quogue every weekend of every summer, the vulgar Zegna-swaddled brother of a Goldman Sachs mandarin whose son's siman tov u ' mazel tov is provided by a pulchritudinous and racially diverse bunch of shellfish-eating chicks in tight off-the-shoulder gowns.
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An excerpt from Feldman's 2008 book, The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, appeared in the New York Times Sunday Magazine and was attacked by Leon Wieseltier for " promoting " Islamic law as a " swell basis " for a political order.
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Conservative columnist Joshua Muravchik calls Wieseltier a " liberal thinker ," and journalist George Packer calls him one of the " ideas men of the liberal intelligentsia.
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Leon Wieseltier attacked Feldman for the dishonesty of " exposing the depredations " of Orthodox Jewish law while praising sharia as " bold and noble ," and called Feldman's essay a " pathetic whine ".
" I am in no sense a neoconservative, as many of my neoconservative adversaries will attest ," Wieseltier wrote in a May 2007 letter to Judge Reggie Walton, seeking leniency for his friend Scooter Libby.
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Referring to his views on Iran, Leon Wieseltier described Zakaria as a " consummate spokesman for the shibboleths of the White House and for the smooth new worldliness, the at-the-highest-levels impatience with democracy and human rights as central objectives of our foreign policy, that now characterize advanced liberal thinking about America's role in the world.
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In the New Republic, Leon Wieseltier said: " In its representation of its Jewish characters, The Passion of the Christ is without any doubt an anti-Semitic movie, and anybody who says otherwise knows nothing, or chooses to know nothing, about the visual history of anti-Semitism, in art and in film.
Wieseltier was a frequent target of satire monthly Spy Magazine, which often derided his analyses of pop culture as comically pretentious, and mocked him as "' Leon Vee-ZEL-tee-AY '" who " jealously guards his highbrow credentials while wearing a lowbrow heart on his sleeve.
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This, according to Wieseltier, amounts to " shilling for soft theocracy " and is hypocritical since Wieseltier presumes that neither he nor Feldman would actually choose to rear their own children in such a system.
Wieseltier served on the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq.
In reference to being called a ' Jew-baiter ' by Wieseltier, Andrew Sullivan has said that ' Wieseltier is a connoisseur and cultivator of personal hatred ' – referring to a dislike based on ' tedious ' causes that Wieseltier allegedly has held regarding him for a long time.
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A final ingredient that led to the magazine's increased stature in the 1980s was its " back of the book " or literary, cultural and arts pages, which were edited by Leon Wieseltier.
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The New Republic's literary editor, Leon Wieseltier, complained, " The creep is doing it again.
Leon Wieseltier (; b. June 14, 1952 ) is an American writer, critic, and magazine editor.
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* Israel, Palestine, and the Bi-National Fantasy ( response to Judt by Leon Wieseltier, The New Republic )
Wieseltier also edited and introduced a volume of works by Lionel Trilling entitled The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent and wrote the foreword to Ann Weiss's The Last Album: Eyes from the Ashes of Auschwitz-Birkenau, a collection of personal photographs that serves as a paean to pre-Shoah innocence.
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Peretz discovered Wieseltier, then working at Harvard's Society of Fellows, and put him in charge of the section.
Wieseltier reinvented the section along the lines of The New York Review of Books, allowing his critics, many of them academics, to write longer, critical essays instead of mere book reviews.
During other changes of editors, Wieseltier has remained as cultural editor.
He began speaking out against invading Iraq, notably in a series of debates with Christopher Hitchens, Leon Wieseltier, Michael Ignatieff, David Frum, William Kristol and others.
Wieseltier was born in Brooklyn, New York and attended the Yeshiva of Flatbush, Columbia University, Oxford University, and Harvard University, and was a member of Harvard's Society of Fellows from 1979 to 1982.
Wieseltier has published several books of fiction and non-fiction.
Wieseltier used the German word " Begriff " in his defense of a negative review of Jonathan Franzen's " Freedom ", writing: "... a retaliation, or, if you will pardon the Begriff, a negation of a negation.
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Kodyke had appeared at the mine one day bearing a letter from Kruger.
Jet -- which I coupled with the Deerstalker carbine as one of the year's two biggest developments -- few significant innovations appeared among 1961's handguns.
There appeared to be no difference in the distribution of anti-A and anti-B activity in group O serum, though in two group O donors ( J. F. and E. M. ) only one type of agglutinin was found in the regions of low anionic binding capacity ( Figs. 1 and 2 ).
The low compulsive child was one who appeared relatively unconcerned about such matters.
Somewhat to his surprise he found that one girl, whom he would never have considered for the job since she had appeared somewhat mousy and also had been in the office a relatively short time, did the most outstanding job of playing the role of receptionist, showing wit, sparkle, and aplomb.
It appeared that the theory could be saved in one way only.
During one reading an image appeared of a prisoner in irons.
Stilts and Shadow, on Pam's bed, appeared to be one cat -- rather large, as Siamese cats go, and, to be sure, having two heads and two tails.
Murray Louis and his dance company appeared at the Henry Street Playhouse on Friday and Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoons in the premiere of his latest work, `` Signal '', and the repetition of an earlier one, `` Journal ''.
Other new artistic currents including the one of M ' hamed Issiakhem, Mohammed Khadda and Bachir Yelles, appeared on the scene of Algerian painting, abandoning figurative classical painting to find new pictorial ways, in order to adapt Algerian paintings to the new realities of the country through its struggle and its aspirations.
His later novels included fixups such as The Beast ( aka Moonbeast ) ( 1963 ), Rogue Ship ( 1965 ), Quest for the Future ( 1970 ) and Supermind ( 1977 ); expanded short stories ( The Darkness on Diamondia ( 1972 ), Future Glitter ( aka Tyranopolis ) ( 1973 ); original novels such as Children of Tomorrow ( 1970 ), The Battle of Forever ( 1971 ) and The Anarchistic Colossus ( 1977 ); plus sequels to his classic works, many of which were promised, but only one of which appeared, Null-A Three ( 1984 ; originally published in French ).
Several later books were original in Europe, and at least one novel has only ever appeared in Italian, no English version yet published.
While experimenting with the products of radioactive decay, in 1913 radiochemist Frederick Soddy discovered that there appeared to be more than one type of atom at each position on the periodic table.
In the 1940s, Joan appeared on-stage in an Agatha Christie play, Appointment with Death, which was seen by Christie who wrote in a note to her, " I hope one day you will play my dear Miss Marple ".
In interviews made before his 2009 death, Woolfson said he planned to release one track from the " Sicilian " album, which in 2008 appeared as a bonus track on a CD re-issue of the Eve album.
It was originally one of between 50 to 70 verses of a song titled " Jerusalem, My Happy Home " that first appeared in a 1790 book called A Collection of Sacred Ballads:
Apus was one of twelve constellations created by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman and it first appeared on a 35 cm diameter celestial globe published in 1597 ( or 1598 ) in Amsterdam by Plancius with Jodocus Hondius.
Following transposition and docking, the crew noticed the exterior surface of the Lunar Module was giving off particles from a spot where the LM's skin appeared torn or shredded ; at one point, Charlie Duke estimated they were seeing about five to ten particles per second.
Her second and last novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, which is considered to be one of the first sustained feminist novels, appeared in 1848.
Groups often join one another in on-campus concerts, such as the Georgetown Chimes ' Cherry Tree Massacre, a 3-weekend a cappella festival held each February since 1975, where over a hundred collegiate groups have appeared, as well as International Quartet Champions The Boston Common and the contemporary commercial a cappella group Rockapella.
Pop singer Pat Boone appeared on one episode as himself, with the premise that he hailed from the same area of the country as the Clampetts, though Boone is a native of Jacksonville, Florida.
In 1965, she appeared as herself in the Hollywood production Dear Brigitte ( 1965 ) starring James Stewart, one of the few American films in which she appeared.
In 2012, a graphic adaptation of the Book of Esther was illustrated by J. T. Waldman and appeared in volume one of The Graphic Canon, edited by Russ Kick and published by Seven Stories Press.
According to one theory, the term was loaned to Russian, where-in literary language-it first appeared in " Elysei ", a 1771 poem by V. Maikov.
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