Searching for Leah
Sam Aurelius Milam III
Earlier
this year, I recorded a movie called Loving Leah. It was a
Hallmark Hall of Fame Production and was presented on the CBS Television
Network. The story centered primarily around three characters:
a Rabbi, his wife, and his brother. The Rabbi, Benjamin Lever, was
a member of an Orthodox Jewish community. His brother, Jake Lever,
played by Adam Kaufman, was well beyond Reformed, mostly non-practicing.
The story began when the Rabbi unexpectedly died. The leaders of
the Orthodox Jewish community suggested that Jake should marry his brother's
widow, Leah, in a Leverite Marriage. It isn't my purpose here to
recount the action that followed. I suggest that you get a copy of
the movie and watch it. The time will be well-spent. My purpose
here is to comment briefly on the fictional Jewish widow, Leah Lever, and
on the actress who portrayed her.
Leah
Lever, the 26-year-old widow, was played by Lauren Ambrose. Leah
was attractive but not unusually so. However, Lauren Ambrose revealed
a surpassing talent as an actress. She gave to Leah an inner beauty
that captivated me. Leah's beauty was compounded of honest modesty,
bashfulness, hope, fear, happiness, and devotion. Her behavior and
her attitudes were beauty itself. I know that she was fictional but
that doesn't matter. She was an ideal and ideals are good things.
They give us a standard of comparison for the real world.
In
all of my years of searching, if I ever found a woman like the fictional
character Leah, then I had the profound misfortune of not recognizing her
for what she was when I found her. With a wife like Leah, my life
would have been a very different experience, and a much more beautiful
one, than it has been without her.![10x5 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/10x5_Page_Background.gif)
CET
Sam Aurelius Milam III
Black Entertainment Television (commonly
referred to by its acronym B.E.T.) is an American cable network
based in Washington, D.C. and targeted towards young black and urban audiences
in the United States ....
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There
are various cable channels that I don't watch. Mostly, I don't watch
them because they don't show anything that I want to see. However,
I refuse to watch BET as a matter of principle.
It
was the Negroes who insisted that separate-but-equal was an unacceptable
policy. They inflexibly demanded total desegregation, at whatever
cost. Now, they have Black Entertainment Television. So, let's
start a network and call it Caucasian Entertainment Television, CET.
Equality works in both directions or it isn't equality. Right?
CET can be tailored for young white audiences. What do you think
would happen? The owners of the network would be denounced as racist
pigs. The network would be hounded out of existence by shrieking
protesters, carrying big signs and marching back and fourth, blocking traffic.
I
don't care if the blacks have black only situations but I do care about
hypocrisy. If the blacks can have BET, the Congressional Black Caucus,
black colleges and scholarships, and so forth ad infinitum then they shouldn't
have complained about racial segregation.![10x5 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/10x5_Page_Background.gif)
Letter to the Editor
Sam Aurelius Milam III
G.
W. Brown, of Baxter, Tennessee sent a letter
to the editor that's too long to print here. A copy of the letter
is linked to this issue on The Frontiersman Website.![10x5 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/10x5_Page_Background.gif)
Stray Thoughts
Sam Aurelius Milam III
Planning
Ahead The difference between hoarding and stockpiling is entirely
a matter of opinion.![10x5 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/10x5_Page_Background.gif)
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