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...simply their home and they must defend it. In such a spirit, Israeli schools tend to bypass the history of the Jews in the Diaspora and its "shame" completely and instead teach the youth to venerate their ancient ancestors who lived by the sword: the generation that originally conquered Canaan; the Maccabees who defeated the world-power Greece; most of all, the Zealots at Massada, who withstood Roman assault for two years and when the end was near committed mass suicide rather than live as slaves. It is a significant fact that Israeli soldiers are sworn in on the heights...
...Personal History, one of the six books he has written in four years, Ben-Gurion shows a deep sense of the continuity of Jewish history. Describing the 1948 war of independence, he writes: "We have more than once met Egypt and Assyria, Babylon and Aram, Canaan and Amalek, but always singly; never in 3,500 years was the whole Middle East united against us." When Ben-Gurion first came to Israel from Poland in 1906 under his original name, David Gryn (his Hebrew name means "son of a lion cub"), he found a land "both loved and desolate"-and underpopulated...
GEORGE A. BRAKELEY III New Canaan, Conn...
...suburb in the Harris catalogue, this is the only one that comes close to fitting the stereotypical conception. (And of the four categories, this is the only one in which a majority of residents even confessed to living in a suburb.) Even so, in towns of this type-New Canaan, Conn., Winnetka, Ill., and Atherton, Calif.-less than half of the breadwinners work in large cities. The Affluent Bedroom communities are tops in income, home ownership, proportion of professionals and executives. They contain increasing numbers of wealthy retired individuals, and they are 98% white, 61% Protestant, 3% Jewish. They...
Perhaps Johnson's most revealing work is what he put up for Johnson -his enclave in New Canaan, built over a span of 21 years and now completed by the sculpture gallery. Johnson dislikes calling it an estate, preferring the word compound-but an estate it is, with all the seigneurial overtones. There has, in fact, been nothing like it since the ducal properties of 18th century England...