Word: abraham
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long as police were kept informed of its activities. At last week's dedication, a police inspector duly watched as reverent Jews queued up to kiss the Torah, listened blandly as the congregation chanted its ancient Hebrew prayers. The service over, the inspector congratulated Congregation President Louis Abraham Blitz on the synagogue's impressive decor, shook hands all around and left. President Blitz led the assembled Jews in a tactful prayer: "May God look with kindness upon the chief of the Spanish state...
Died. Dr. Abraham Flexner, 92, educator who began a lifelong fight for better education by issuing a sensational report (1910) on the condition of U.S. medical schools that caused half of the schools to shut down, the other half to overhaul their curriculums, as a member of the General Education Board of the Rockefeller Foundation cajoled multimillions out of wealthy moguls to reorganize American medical education, founded (1930) Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study and persuaded Dr. Einstein to leave Germany to become one of its first members; in Falls Church...
...when and if he had the patience and interest to look: tall Iowa corn; a white-painted New England church; buildings under construction in U.S. cities; an Army Redstone missile; a gate at Brown University in Providence, R.I.; a new U.S. automobile; the presence of the guiding spirit of Abraham Lincoln...
...Jewish question will be over in the United States. If this should happen-and I do not for a moment think it will-would it be a solution that either the Jews or the United States would welcome? Does America want the disappearance of its people of Abraham...
...spirit of anything to be found in the Hebrew of the Old Testament or the Hellenic Greek of the New. The idea of God as an ineffable opaque Presence, as the principle of causality, or as "the Ground of Being" and "Being-in-Itself" would surely have sent Abraham and Moses, Mary and the Magdalene, Saints Peter and Paul, into gales of reverent laughter; such a rarified and remote ontological abstraction or inarticulate mood of awe would seem an uncomprehending parody of the inexhaustibly rich and concrete Personality whose love and rage and will they each had known with such...