Word: abrahams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SAGA OF WESTERN MAN (ABC, 7-8 p.m.). John Secondari and John Huston narrate this story of the wanderings of the Jews from the time of Abraham to the birth of Christ. Repeat...
Pious & Pungent. Kraus thereupon deduced that all seven were in fact living Christians and Jews, each presenting his respective claims to salvation. The Jews were raising their hems in order to show that they were sons of Abraham, who by his circumcision sealed his people's covenant with the Lord. Kraus's findings, when first published a few years ago in a prestigious French art journal, caused a sensation in scholarly circles...
...Abraham's Choice. The novel is a stark tale that shows how the ghosts of the Hitler era still haunt the Promised Land. In a Polish concentration camp, Nazi guards tell Haim Kalinsky that since his two sons are so "nice," they will kill only one of them-thus forcing on him a sadistic perversion of Abraham's choice. Kalinsky selects his favorite, eleven-year-old Shmuel, to be spared, while six-year-old Daniel is led away to be slaughtered...
...Abraham Lincoln showed the humility of a genuine patriot when he did not claim that God was on his side but prayed that he might be on God's. Over the long run, the U.S. approach to its national interest has nearly always been suffused with a highly moral tone. At times, that tone has been debased, as it was by those who saw in the Spanish-American War a crusade to "Christianize" the heathen, provide God's chosen with more markets and advance their "resistless march toward the commercial supremacy of the world." This led Andrew Carnegie...
...Lincoln Memorial. They overflowed beyond the big shade trees and sat on the banks on the Constitution Avenue side. David Dellinger, chairman of the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, was standing in front of a rostrum across the street from the scolding stare of Abraham Lincoln. Dellinger was saying, "Our-voices will be heard and our bodies will be heeded...