Word: abraham
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...After Jacob, grandson of Abraham, had wrestled all night with the angel at the brook Jabbok, the angel dubbed him Israel ("Prince of God"), "for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed...
...marchers wept as they walked; the faces of many more gleamed with happiness. There were no brass bands. There was little shouting or singing. Instead, for over an hour and a half, there was the sound of thousands of feet shuffling toward the temple erected in the name of Abraham Lincoln...
...many Americans, it remains one of the incandescent moments in living memory. Facing a throng of 250,000 on the capital Mall, with the Washington Monument soaring before him and the white marble figure of Abraham Lincoln brooding behind him, Martin Luther King Jr. turned mere spectacle into a kind of national epiphany. "I have a dream today," he declared. And again, "I have a dream today." And again. He used the words as more than refrain, more than cadence, almost as biblical exhortation. And as his listeners cheered him more loudly each time he repeated them, King built toward...
DIED. Raymond Massey, 86, gaunt, lanky, Canadian-born stage and screen actor remembered by a generation for his award-winning portrayals of Abraham Lincoln; of complications from pneumonia; in Los Angeles. Later audiences knew him best as the crusty but warmhearted Dr. Gillespie in NBC's Dr. Kildare TV series (with Richard Chamberlain in the title role...
...lain among the wealth of original manuscripts in the cavernous New York Public Library for the past 30 years. Now Father Abraham, a short story by William Faulkner, is about to be published for the first time. Written in 1926, after his first novel, Soldiers' Pay, the story plots the origins of the Snopes family, who were to form the center of his Yoknapatawpha County trilogy (The Hamlet, The Town and The Mansion). Father Abraham, which was the start of a never finished novel, has been known to Faulknerian scholars for years. But curiously, no one had ever transcribed...