Word: ancient
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...life as well as his thought, Soloveitchik bridges the ancient ghettos and modern urban culture. The scion of an eminent line of East European rabbis, he was trained at home in Russia by his father and received no formal schooling until he entered the University of Berlin. There he earned a Ph.D. in philosophy, becoming as conversant with Kant as with Moses. In 1932 he moved to Boston as chief Orthodox rabbi and founder of a pioneering day school. He later began commuting to teach in New York. A widower, he has two daughters...
...previously unknown, the bones are the most diverse and perfectly preserved ever discovered from that time. Although they have only just begun to study their find, Richard Stucky, 34, and Leonard Krishtalka, 38, are already convinced that the bones will reveal precious clues to the evolution and extinction of ancient animals. Says Stucky exuberantly: "It's a gold mine...
...that country's factional fighting. In the past six months there have been several clashes between the Iranian guards and Syrian troops in the Bekaa Valley. In the latest fight, in early September, Syria brought in tanks and forced the guards to return to their camps outside the ancient city of Baalbek. That clash was promptly followed by a surprise visit to Syria by Iranian President Seyed Ali Khamene'i, who reportedly met with the guards in the Bekaa Valley and ordered them to toe the Syrian line...
...contrast, Harrington's company, Sub-Sal of Reno, Nev., pinpointed the site in just three weeks last April, thanks to state-of-the-art devices that are making treasure hunters both more scientific and more successful. Where once these undersea detectives took a wild plunge with ancient charts and a hunch, the modern salvage team can reduce the search area to the site of a small lake, and hunt for pieces of gold no bigger than a pencil eraser...
There might be some saving grace in all of this if it amounted to good, dirty fun. Even this modest goal is infrequently achieved. The rest is a disappointing hodgepodge of repetition and irrelevancy. Heller's attitude toward the past remains steadfastly muddled. He obviously appreciates and exploits ancient grandeur; he also cannot resist the urge to deface every monument he encounters. A certain biblical hero had a remedy for such behavior...