Word: chaim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israel's U.N. Ambassador Chaim Herzog reported last week that approximately a brigade of Cuban troops-usually about 3,000 men-has been with the Syrian army facing Israel on the Golan Heights for two years. This even though Fidel Castro's government last July formally disavowed the export of revolution...
...vote for fear of appearing to knuckle under to an American ambassador who had called the Organization of African Unity's chairman, President Idi Amin Dada of Uganda, a "racist murderer." Moynihan feels that without a strong stand the vote might have been worse. Israeli Ambassador Chaim Herzog agrees...
...CHAIM POTOK 454 pages. Knopf...
...reader is at once unsurprised and informed, wholly aware of what it must have been like to belong to such a family and such a religion at such a time. Conveying vividly the exact feel of unfamiliar territory is a job almost exclusively performed by journalists. But as Chaim Potok (The Chosen) reminds us, the fact that novels can accomplish that task superlatively is one of the reasons why they are still written-and read...
...addition the book, edited by Rabbi Chaim Stern of Chappaqua, N.Y., drops "thee" and "thou" in addressing the Deity (only "you" is now used) and downplays expressions like "our fathers," which are now deemed to be sexist. It also incorporates the words of moderns like Alfred North Whitehead and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and these lines from William Blake: "It is an easy thing to laugh at wrathful elements,/ To hear the dog howl at the wintry door, the ox in the slaughter house moan;/ To see a god on every wind & a blessing on every blast...