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...It’s wonderful to think that the very young Jonathan Safran Foer...can be writing so well and with such lofty aspiration,” wrote Adam Begley of the New York Observer. “It will be wonderful if he writes many more books...
...supreme council of the Jews, was to pass a series of sweeping measures that limited contacts with Gentiles. The School of Hillel, however, taught that righteous Gentiles merited a share in the world to come if they observed the seven so-called Noahide commandments, basic moral directives addressed to Adam and Noah in the Bible and binding all humanity. The usual Noahide list includes the obligation to help establish a system of justice, plus prohibitions against idolatry, blasphemy, theft, murder, sexual sins and cruelty to animals. According to Falk, the authoritative compendium of Jewish oral law and commentary, the Talmud...
...deeply religious Roman Catholic family resistant to Nazism, he served six years as a Wehrmacht conscript on both fronts. He emerged as a pacifist and foe of all establishments, governmental, religious and bureaucratic, and began writing novels of protest against war (The Train Was on Time, 1949; Adam, Where Art Thou, 1951), then went on to describe and deride the materialistic, dehumanizing postwar society in such works as Billiards at Half-Past Nine (1959), The Clown (1963) and Group Portrait with Lady (1971). A crusader for the freedom of writers everywhere, especially under Communism, Bll was considered Germany...
With the game out of reach, sophomore midfielder Adam Mahfouda, sophomore midfielder Evan Calvert, and junior midfielder Tom Boylan each scored goals to bring Harvard’s total...
Through Saturday, April 9. Antigone, directed by Adam Zalisk and produced by Geoff Johnston, Claire Pasternack, and Kim Weber. Loeb Drama Center, various showtimes. Free admission. To reserve tickets call...