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SAGA OF WESTERN MAN (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Christ Is Born. The story of the Wandering Jew, from the time of Abraham to the birth of Christ. John Secondari and John Huston narrate...
...trouble with the American lib eral middle class, Abbie complains, is that-among other things-it lives the myth of Abraham and Isaac backward: " 'God is dead,' they cry, 'and we did it for the kids.' " (Abraham, of course, was prepared to kill his own son for God.) On student revolt, he comments: "And so you ask, 'What about the innocent bystanders?' But we are in a time of revolution. If you are a bystander, you are not innocent." He is particularly ferocious toward the press: "The headline of the Daily News today reads...
...again in last year's Six-Day War, the Israelis are tough, wily soldiers. Their ancestors weren't bad either. In a new book called Great Battles of Biblical History (published in England by Hutchinson & Co. Ltd.), retired British General Sir Richard Gale analyzes scriptural warfare from Abraham to the Maccabees. Gale suggests that, more often than not, the Hebrew military commanders anticipated many of the tactics employed by later and more celebrated generals...
Gale is a former chief of British troops in Palestine after World War II, and later served as a Deputy Supreme Commander of NATO. He contends that the major biblical battles were not haphazard confrontations of wandering primitives but meticulously planned affairs. Abraham's victory over the Elamites-achieved by a surprise attack at night from two directions-"showed an appreciation of military tactics as applicable today as it was 4,000 years...
...your very perceptive Essay, "The Difficult Art of Losing," you overlooked perhaps the sweetest sour grape ever uttered: On March 9, 1832, Abraham Lincoln said, "If the good people, in their wisdom, shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined...