Word: 12th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...order of being perhaps more than of believing. Being Jewish is feeling the past in one's bones and living all out in the present; it is Job's chutzpah as well as his submission to God; it is the lingering melancholy which the 12th century writer Judah Halevi called the "aching heart of nations," and it is sharp humor, often directed at oneself. For all his changes, the American Jew has not lost these qualities; in fact he is making them, more than ever, a gift to the world...
Twersky, who is 34, is the author of an of Posquleres: A 12th Century Talmudist published in 1962 by the Harvard University Press, and of Judaism and University History to be published this year Prentice-Hall. At the present he is beginning a volume entitled A Study of Maimonides which will be published by Yale University Press as the introductory volume for Maimonides' translation of Mishah Torah...
...artist to see the lyrical in the prosaic is comprehensible, and perhaps the essence of his trade-but the other way around? Moreau is a lovely woman, not a sloe-eyed Orphan Annie advertising 50 cigars to the 12th century. Please, next time find someone who can draw...
...range of scenery and climate are matched nowhere at all. Orson Welles, making do with a fish-and-flour warehouse as studio, paid rent of a mere $120 a month. And he didn't have to fabricate a medieval cobbled-street market, a walled village, or a 12th century Romanesque castle: all were within kilometers of his set. Which left most of his rigid $1,000,000 budget for casting, and he could hardly have made it pay better, signing on Jeanne Moreau as Dolly Tearsheet, Sir John Gielgud as Henry IV, and even Margaret Rutherford as Mrs. Quickly...
Debating the affirmative position that "the Federal Government should establish a national program of public works for the unemployed," Northwestern defeated M.I.T., 4-1, Saturday to win Harvard's 12th annual forensic classic...