Word: ancients
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...Blasphemy! Heresy!" Blau has been fighting Zionism since he was old enough to grow a beard. Grandson of a Hungarian immigrant who helped build Mea She'arim in the 19th century, Blau learned as an article of faith that the Jews had been dispersed from ancient Israel for their sins. Since only the Messiah could re-establish Israel, Blau naturally looked upon the efforts of Chaim Weizmann to set up a secular Jewish state as nothing less than blasphemy...
...will now join President Pusey, Dean Ford, and six other scholars in the Society, which selects the Junior Fellows. Other Seniors include Crane Brinton, Chairman of the Society and McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History; Paul M. Doty, professor of Chemistry; Wassily W. Leontief, Henry Lee professor of Economics; Harry T. Levin, Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature; Edward M. Purcell, Gerhard Gade University Professor; and Willard V. Quine, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy...
University autonomy is by no means a phenomenon unique to Venezuela. It is a practice employed to a certain degree throughout Latin America. The history of the idea dates to a student strike and subsequent convention in Cordoba, Argentina, in 1919. Protesting against the ancient and restrictive control of university life by the Church, the Cordoba students staged a noisy walkout against scholastic officialdom. The result was an independent charter for the school. The student congress that took place in Cordoba under the new grant cited the principle of university autonomy as the end of all educational reform...
...Buildings in America's future." Made of steel, glass and aluminum, the Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. head quarters combined the taut discipline of Mies van der Robe's masterpieces with grace notes-inner courtyards, reflecting pools, broad promenades-as old as the most ancient palaces. Now, perhaps to their dismay, the officers and employees of Connecticut General can look out their windows and see on a neighboring knoll a new building that tops theirs in grace and drama...
...World civilizations were once considered juvenile compared with the ancient cultures of the Old World, but recent discoveries are changing this view. On the dry Peruvian coast 40 miles south of Lima, French Archaeologist Frederic Engel of Lima's La Molina University is excavating a primitive agricultural village that was apparently going strong 6,000 years ago. Though this is later than the appearance of the first forms of agriculture in the Middle East, about 9,000 years ago, it is still a respectable...