Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...observed so strictly that nurses are forbidden to write on patients' charts on the Sabbath. The sheet-draped patient: Abram Setsuzau Kotsuji, 60, a descendant of Shinto priests. The surgery: circumcision, as part of his conversion to Judaism. As the mohel (circumciser) lifted the knife, he repeated the ancient formula: "Blessed be the Lord our God who has sanctified us and commanded us to circumcise the convert...
Tortuous Road. For Setsuzau Kotsuji, the road to the Jewish faith was long and tortuous. As a child, in Kyoto, Japan's temple-filled ancient capital, he discovered the Bible in a secondhand bookshop. Kotsuji entered a Christian mission school, studied Hebrew, became a Presbyterian; he later studied philology at the University of California, earned a doctorate at Kyoto University. Acknowledged as Japan's top Hebraist. Kotsuji wrote a Hebrew grammar, tutored scholarly Prince Mikasa, youngest brother of Nippon's Emperor Hirohito...
...Spring term, C. Crane Brinton, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, will offer another television course, "A Study of Revolutions...
...building used to house administrative offices for the modern and ancient language departments and a few classrooms. Now, with five classrooms, seven seminar rooms, an auditorium, and two audio-visual labs, it also provides 108 office rooms. The new offices will be used by the departments of ancient and modern languages, Classics, and History and Literature. The Romance and German departmental libraries will also be moved to Boylston...
...city of Rome on the left bank of the Tiber, Romulus keeps on talking. He is, he assures them, the son of the war god Mars, and was suckled by a she-wolf as a baby. As presented by British Author Duggan, that veteran rewrite man of ancient history (Winter Quarters, King of Pontus), Rome's founder is a born con man, but one who believes his own line of patter...