Word: canaan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...influence of the newspaper course has begun to spread beyond the living room. In New Canaan, Conn. -where the course runs in the Advertiser and 29 reader-students are enrolled for credit at the University of Connecticut-a community group has sponsored lectures based on the series, drawing as many as 75 listeners. A book club in San Diego uses the articles for regularly scheduled group discussions. Even prisoners - at least 46 from four states - have signed...
PICKING UP ENERGY as his characters, Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann as Karl-Oscar and Kristina Neilson, took life, Troell detailed the tough choices and sacrifices, the illnesses and griefs that propelled the group to the Promised Land. Despite the ambivalent picture he painted of the passage into Canaan. of the hostile reaction these immigrants of the mid-1840s encountered in America, Troell brought The Emigrants to a climactic affirmation as Karl-Oscar blazed the boundaries of his new farm by the shores of a Minnesota lake...
...occupying the area were to be annihilated completely: men, women, children, "as the Lord your God commanded you." Such enemies were herem-proscribed abominations whose pagan practices threatened contagion. History is unclear how often this "commandment" was carried out, but Joshua seems to have applied it with vigor against Canaan...
...dozen iffy investments. Narragansett Capital, the nation's largest publicly owned S.B.I.C., has lost $1,081,000 bankrolling Sam Snead All American Golf, Inc. "A venture capitalist looks for a return of ten times his original investment," says Harlan Anderson, head of Anderson Investment Co. in New Canaan, Conn., "but you're lucky if you get that kind of return in one case out of ten, so it evens out." And some venture capitalists go bust along with the businesses they buy into; 400-odd S.B.I.C.s have perished since...
...that Breuer minds; he has always been his own man. He lives in houses of his own design in New Canaan, Conn., and Wellfleet, Mass., with his wife and daughter, 18 (he also has a son, 29), and is known as a bon vivant, chess player and bawdy raconteur. As busy as ever, Breuer is constantly on the go. One project is a recreational town of 48,000 units along the dune-dotted Aquitaine coast in southwestern France. Another is the Koerfer House in Switzerland that just won a top architectural award. Back in the U.S. is a new hydropower...