Baruch Lumet "The Pawnbroker" (1964) and "The Group" (1966). He also appeared in Woody Allen's comedy "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask", improbably cast as an elderly rabbi with a bondage fetish. From 1953 to 1960, Lumet was the director of the Dallas Institute of Performing Arts and the Knox Street Theater in Dallas. Among his students there were Jayne Mansfield and Tobe Hooper. Baruch Lumet Baruch Lumet ("Burech Lumet"; 16 September 1898 – 8 February 1992) was a Polish Jewish actor best known for his work in the Yiddish theatre. Lumet was born in
Literature in the 1970s such as those of Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie, and J. R. R. Tolkien. Books discussing sex such as "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)" were popular as authors took advantage of the lifted censorship laws on literature in the sixties. Exposés such as "All the President's Men" were also popular. Self-help and diet books replaced the cookbooks and home fix-it manuals that topped the sixties's charts. After the experimentation and sexual offence subject matter that exemplified some of the sixties' most definitive works of literature, the early '70s brought a return to old-fashioned